From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 2 17:27:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA05745 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 17:27:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA05728; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 17:27:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmb) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199807030027.RAA05728@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD equiv. of /proc/loadavg In-Reply-To: <199807022336.QAA12912@usr09.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Jul 2, 98 11:36:26 pm" To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 17:27:17 -0700 (PDT) Cc: joelh@gnu.org, mike@smith.net.au, dmm125@bellatlantic.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] 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 Terry Lambert wrote: > > >> 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-). Oh Terry! i dont like rc.d because i am left which "which of these scripts in which directory did what!" why? grr.... with our current strcuture, we have some separation without reaching the level of cookiness that sunos 5.5.1 provides: 70 shell scripts scattered across 5 directories. jmb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message