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Date:      Wed, 03 Apr 2002 08:38:26 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        "Alton, Matthew" <Matthew.Alton@anheuser-busch.com>
Cc:        "'Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" <Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: procfs development 
Message-ID:  <41691.1017815906@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Apr 2002 18:12:52 MDT." <E1450DFD283DD61184900002A5F0032356BD7C@STLABCEXG024> 

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In message <E1450DFD283DD61184900002A5F0032356BD7C@STLABCEXG024>, "Alton, Matth
ew" writes:
>Are there any plans to expand the procfs implementation to provide an
>interface that is more in line with the implementations on Unixware,
>Solaris and AIX? I've been writing a simple debugger that would be
>portable among those three platforms, and others, but it is based
>completely on the procfs interface, and I've come to find out the
>procfs implementation on FreeBSD and Linux are (aside from being
>completely different from each other) completely different than what's
>been done on AIX, Solaris and Unixware.

We are working very hard to make procfs optional in FreeBSD for a
number of reasons.

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