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Date:      Thu, 16 Dec 1999 22:09:02 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, sef@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: linux /proc and vmware.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912162208150.16082-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <14425.42251.714289.32020@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

> 
> Julian Elischer writes:
>  > 
>  > might I suggest that we make a decision to allow procfs to be mounted with 
>  > a -linux flag and act more like the linux programs expect.?
>  > (particularly we could mount it at /compat/linux/proc with the -linux
>  > flag).
>  > 
> 
> That would be wonderful.  
> 
> I'd also like to see us have enough information in /proc to be able to
> divorce ps & friends from libkvm.  It would be nice to be able to have
> most tools continue to work if you have mismatched kernels &
> userlands.

I thought the work was going in precisely the opposite way, so that jail
could work without any visibility to /proc.

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