From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 24 17:50:49 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5AEF16A41C for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 17:50:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from martinkov@pobox.sk) Received: from smtp.dkm.cz (smtp.dkm.cz [62.24.64.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E5E4E43D49 for ; Tue, 24 May 2005 17:50:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from martinkov@pobox.sk) Received: (qmail 44471 invoked by uid 0); 24 May 2005 17:50:47 -0000 Received: from r4aq181.chello.upc.cz (HELO ?84.42.170.181?) (84.42.170.181) by smtp.dkm.cz with SMTP; 24 May 2005 17:50:47 -0000 Message-ID: <42936977.8040406@pobox.sk> Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 19:50:47 +0200 From: martinko User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050520 X-Accept-Language: sk, cs, en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kris@obsecurity.org Subject: re: procfs in 5.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 17:50:49 -0000 hi, i've been wondering long time what's the actual state of procfs in freebsd. yes, i added procfs line to fstab but i do not mount it automatically at system startup. yet i'm still able to use ps(1) unlike the originator of this thread. how come? i believe i've read somewhere that (use of) procfs was dropped or something and freebsd does not use it anymore. if so, i'm asking why and then why did the originator of this thread have problem running ps(1) without procfs mounted? many thanks for clearing this. regards, martin