From owner-cvs-all Wed Apr 19 21:20:15 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A270D37BD73; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 21:20:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA06276; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 21:27:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200004200427.VAA06276@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: John Baldwin Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT modules In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 20 Apr 2000 00:10:43 EDT." <200004200410.AAA52637@server.baldwin.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 21:27:03 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I believe that it has been stated a couple of times that the linprocfs > mount is only supposed to be visible to processes running inside the > linuxulator. Thus, the "move" was not just referring to a physical > relocation of the code files, but also a movement of the functionality > from an external filesystem into a subsystem of the linuxulator hidden > from normal processes. I requested (and obtained) clarification when the original declamation was received from on high; mounting it on /compat/linux/procfs is deemed to be adequate to achieve this purpose. (No, I don't immediately plan to update /usr/sbin/linux to do this automatically - either it'll become part of the linux compatibility code proper, or we'll do it the brute-force way, but that's still somewhat open to discussion - our usual decision-making process.) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message