From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 1 06:46:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA15373 for current-outgoing; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 06:46:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fgate.flevel.co.uk (root@fgate.flevel.co.uk [194.6.101.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA15368 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 06:46:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dev@localhost) by fgate.flevel.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA11692; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 14:48:22 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 14:48:21 +0100 (BST) From: Developer To: "John S. Dyson" cc: Terry Lambert , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Just a note that libkvm/ps/etc need to be recompiled In-Reply-To: <199608011243.HAA05038@dyson.iquest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, John S. Dyson wrote: > > > > Either way, you'd need a libkvm that matched the kernel, but it would > > save every day use from all of these recompiles (w and so on, too). > > > That certainly has not been well thought out. I do think that the > system is much less useful without procfs. It is useful even in many embedded > applications. Perhaps ps/libkvm/etc need to be thought out better. > > But remember, -current isn't targeted for everyday use :-). I wonder if it might be an idea to have a kernel call that gets the proc structure size, that way libkvm/ps/w etc wouldn`t have to be re-compiled when the structure changed? Regards, Trefor S.