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Date:      Sun, 2 Dec 2007 13:42:26 +0000
From:      Jurjen Middendorp <jurjenm@stack.nl>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Linux /proc on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20071202134226.GA7974@s062107.lan>
In-Reply-To: <200712020132.37819.pieter@degoeje.nl>
References:  <1196552904.16096.10.camel@sundaysister> <200712020132.37819.pieter@degoeje.nl>

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On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 01:32:37AM +0100, Pieter de Goeje wrote:
>On Sunday 02 December 2007, Lennart Koopmann wrote:
>> Hey everyone,
>>
>> i am going to port a server that i am currently working on to FreeBSD.
>> I don't have much experience with FreeBSD yet.  The only real big thing
>> i have to change is the way some data is fetched. In the Linux version i
>> read in data like the hostname, the domainname, the kernel version etc
>> from /proc.
>Sysctls kern.hostname and kern.version.
>>
>> Is there a central point to look for those values in FreeBSD?
>Yes, the sysctl MIB tree.
>> If not, where do i get those values?
>>
>> I _don't_ want to use external binaries like sysctl etc...
>man 3 sysctl :)

Why not use (more portable (?)) functions instead of linux-isms or
freebsd-isms? (e.g. uname, gethostname and friends vs. /proc and sysctl).

-jurjen



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