From owner-cvs-all Sat Mar 25 22:57:20 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1774537B9A5; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 22:57:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2BADF1C4A; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 01:57:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 01:57:08 -0500 From: Bill Fumerola To: Chris Costello Cc: Brian Fundakowski Feldman , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/linprocfs linprocfs_misc.c Message-ID: <20000326015708.S25438@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <200003251941.LAA67435@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000326003014.D18325@holly.calldei.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000326003014.D18325@holly.calldei.com>; from chris@calldei.com on Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 12:30:14AM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 12:30:14AM -0600, Chris Costello wrote: > > solution? Right now, I just don't see the good in linprocfs. > > I really think this should be a part of the Linux emulator if > anything. This just seems like we're only encouraging the use of > bad interfaces. I think the point of having this "bad interface" in our tree is to open up the doors to software written by linuxcentric and/or unintelligent programmers who write nonportable code. Sometimes we can get around this by porting their code, sometimes we can't (read: binary only software). Just my perspective. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect Computer Horizons Corp - CVM e-mail: billf@chc-chimes.com / billf@FreeBSD.org Office: 800-252-2421 x128 / Cell: 248-761-7272 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message