From owner-cvs-all Mon Dec 11 5: 2:40 2000 From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 05:02:36 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A15B337B400; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 05:02:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA55229; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:02:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Sender: des@ofug.org X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Peter Wemm Cc: Soren Schmidt , sheldonh@uunet.co.za (Sheldon Hearn), marcel@cup.hp.com (Marcel Moolenaar), obrien@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/linux/linprocfs linprocfs_misc.c References: <200012111210.eBBCARK27849@mobile.wemm.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 11 Dec 2000 14:02:29 +0100 In-Reply-To: Peter Wemm's message of "Mon, 11 Dec 2000 04:10:27 -0800" Message-ID: Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Wemm writes: > I have never used it, but I was under the impression that what it did was > fill in "missing files" only, and depended on the /compat/linux pre-search > path thing. ie: a linux process trying to access "/proc/foo" would be > searched as /compat/linux/proc/foo then /proc/foo. It doesn't know or care about the linuxulator. You could mount it as /proc instead of procfs and it wouldn't care (though ps(1) would go bonkers). It doesn't implement the full set of files that Linux procfs does, but that's more out of laziness than any other reason. I'll happily implement any file that somebody tells me is required for a specific application to run. > Regarding miscfs vs fs.. miscfs is a bad name. There has been some movement > to collect all the filesystems under sys/fs at some point. All the newer > ones have gone in there directly. "All the newer ones" are hpfs and devfs - two new file systems in a span of a year and two days. > Please, not sys/miscfs as it will just > end up getting moved yet again down the track. Right. May I please exercise my illusionary MAINTAINER powers and ask the repo-meisters to repo-copy it to sys/compat/linprocfs? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message