From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 5 12:15:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA09426 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 12:15:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA09420 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 12:15:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) with SMTP id MAA09148; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 12:06:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <331DD1CB.794BDF32@whistle.com> Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 21:04:27 +0100 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joerg Wunsch CC: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: java support under FreeBSD. References: <199703041926.LAA24593@dirac.phys.washington.edu> <199703042052.PAA13147@jenolan.caipgeneral> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch wrote: > > As David S. Miller wrote: > > > This is the sort of thing that procfs root writable only tunables are > > for. > > Or sysctl root writable only tunables, just to call the same interface > by another (non-Linux :) name... > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) actually it's not quite the same.. they have som intersting work in procfs going on where thay allow you to set different values for differnt processes. sort of sysctl -per-process. don't know if it's in the mainline yet or ever will be but it'd sure be useful. There was a talk on it at the USELINUX part of USENIX.