Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 16:58:22 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, Pascal Hofstee <daeron@Wit401305.student.utwente.nl>, Shawn Ramsey <shawn@cpl.net>, oZZ!!! <osa@etrust.ru>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: StarOffice-5.0... Message-ID: <199812030058.QAA01111@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Dec 1998 12:58:44 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.981201105221.19304F-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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> On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Yes, I've got the diffs against relatively fresh current. BTW, I asked > > > this question on -emulation, but got back a profound silence... Can we/ > > > should we incorporate this patch, and hide it under a kernel option, say > > > PROCFS_CMDLINE? The life would be soooo easier for people new to our linux > > > emulation... > > > > A couple of things: > > > > - If it's part of our emulation support, it should probably be the > > default (cringe). > > - Your patch doesn't preserve the remainder of the commandline > > arguments. Feel like fixing this and resubmitting it? > > I suppose there is no easy way for the procfs code to determine if the > relevant calls are coming from a linux emulated process or not? I don't think there's a uniquifier for the ABI mode in the proc structure, no. > If there > were, then the command line stuff could be made only to appear for Linux > processes. I'm guessing, however, that only the creds and arguments to > the vfs call make it that far down, and use of curproc seems > inappropriate? There's probably a pointer to the current process in the arguments. > Or, if loadable kernel modules (or whatever they are called today) could > add hook functions to the procfs module via some symbol or another, then > new items could be added based on context. That however, seems a little > too busy, given that stackable file systems don't work. :) Yeah. I was playing with a generic framework for componentised VFS', but I haven't had time to do much with it lately, and the proper semantics for things like locking were giving me some confusion. The real answer is a linux-procfs, which mounts on /compat/linux/procfs. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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