Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:54:42 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Linux emulation Re: StarOffice-5.0... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811112047350.337-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811120104460.12730-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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Moved to -chat...
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> > Just curious, but what exactly does that '/proc/*/cmdline' thing
> > "do", and is there any reason why it is inappropriate for it to be a
> > standard part of our /proc?
>
> It\s just a copy of the argv[0]. Why the programs can\t access their
> argv[0] instead is beyond me - looks like a very stupid thing...
Agreed...but, if there a reason to *not* incorporate it?
> > When talkign with friends that use Linux, and talking about our
> > /proc file system, they think its hilarious that I can't go into proc and
> > find out what irqs are being used by the system...maybe I'm missing
> > something, but about the only way I can do it currently is to look through
> > dmesg output? Is there another way?
>
> >From my POV, it's hilarious to go to /proc to read the hardware
> parameters of the system - the name "proc" is supposed to mean "info
> related to processes", isn't it?
Agreed...so, now, what do we have? We have this *great* operating
system built upon several years of stable code that can't run what is
probably one of the most monumental software packages (free software
packages, at that) that makes the difference between whether or not
FreeBSD can go anywhere except in the machine room as a server...
...all because adding /proc/*/cmdline is basically putting more
information into /proc then /proc "means"?
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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