Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 13:47:50 +0100 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?=" <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: linprocfs question. Porting app from linux to freebsd Message-ID: <1bd550a00801040447p3d0d43f6n87c79c51bb3cb508@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi all, I was suggested to contact the linux compatibility team (or Roman Divacky) to get some help. I want to port an application from Linux to FreeBSD. The linux app. makes extensive use of the procfs. Now, I have several options to port the software: 1 - Use sysctl. The problem here is that some information (about cpu or memory, for instance) is not available through this interface. 2 - Write a kernel module to get an uniform access (Ivan Vorak suggested me this) 3 - Use linprocfs. The easiest to me is the third point. All the access would be very similar. However, there are some missing files in the linprocfs. I would like to know if there are some plans of keeping adding more linux-like files as the devices, filesystems or modules files you can get under /proc in a linux system or I should look for another alternative (like the module Ivan suggests.) Thanks in advance. PS: some options have already been discussed in the hackers@ and questions@ lists.
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