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Date:      Thu, 3 Jan 2008 21:59:02 +0100
From:      "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?=" <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com>
To:        "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Porting from Linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)
Message-ID:  <1bd550a00801031259q56965b82n86a050f945a5df3d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <fljhvi$8j9$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <1bd550a00801030926h7b3f0aaayfd04244a3305619c@mail.gmail.com> <86tzlud6y5.fsf@ds4.des.no> <1bd550a00801031157s521665e4p77b2250d3966ec1d@mail.gmail.com> <fljhvi$8j9$1@ger.gmane.org>

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On Jan 3, 2008 9:53 PM, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Fernando Apestegu=EDa wrote:
>
> > Maybe a mix of both could be good: use the linxprocfs when it is
> > almost straightforward (in fact I could run the app, just changing few
> > lines) and sysctl when the linprocfs doesn't provide the information
> > that I need.
>
> Also, linprocfs is never mounted by default - this might or might not be
> an obstacle, depending on how user-friendly the application is (asking
> desktop users to alter their fstabs may be asking too much :) ).
>

I hadn't thought about it... but it's quite to the point. Maybe it
makes no sense to ask for a particular filesystem from a graphical
Gnome application...

>
>



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