From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 2 16:36:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA29201 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 16:36:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (daemon@smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA29187; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 16:36:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr09.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA05666; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 16:36:38 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr09.primenet.com(206.165.6.209) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd005617; Thu Jul 2 16:36:33 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr09.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA12912; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 16:36:26 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199807022336.QAA12912@usr09.primenet.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD equiv. of /proc/loadavg To: joelh@gnu.org Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 23:36:26 +0000 (GMT) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, dmm125@bellatlantic.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199807022118.QAA06797@detlev.UUCP> from "Joel Ray Holveck" at Jul 2, 98 04:18:53 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> I realize now though that if you want to port some apps with > >> low-level details, you gotta do a little reworking. > > Yup. Particularly when you're dealing with code written for Linux > > (where NIH is considered a virtue...). > > What's NIH? We can't tell you; the use of the term was Not Invented Herei, and thus, like SysV rc.d, we fear and mistrust it... 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message