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Subject: Re: Porting from Linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)
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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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