Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:43:56 -0500 From: "Phil Cryer" <phil@cryer.us> To: kris@obsecurity.org Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, ale@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Re: How to deal with a port that uses /proc in FreeBSD 6.0? Message-ID: <1127853836.8699c9cphil@cryer.us>
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=20 >> http://fak3r.com/articles/2005/09/26/deprecated-proc-and-c-debugging >>=20 >> Is there a way to use sysctl in place of it? If so, how can you=20 >>'symlink' an app to use it instead of /proc? >There is /proc, it just doesn't get mounted by default. If your >software really really needs it and you can't patch it to obtain the >information another way (it sounds like you aren't experienced enough >to do this, but maybe you could talk to the developers), you can look >at what other ports like valgrind do to check and report a missing >procfs. Kris Thanks, currently I just manually mount /proc with: echo "proc /proc procfs rw 0 0" >> /etc/fstab; mount /proc anytime I need to debug some code, and that works, I was just wondering if = there was any sort of better/long term solution. A current open source p= roject I'm working is written in C, and there's plenty to debug since the= y devel on Linux only, so I have to run gdb and the like rather often. J= ust wondering if this is the best way to deal with this or if there's som= e "official" way that I don't know about. Thanks again. P Kris "You teach best what you most need to learn." - Richard Bach
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