From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 27 09:15:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA07470 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 09:15:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from minnow.render.com (render.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA07458; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 09:15:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dfr@localhost) by minnow.render.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA20263; Thu, 27 Feb 1997 17:09:37 GMT To: Adrian Chadd Cc: questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Java binary support in FreeBSD ... References: From: Doug Rabson Date: 27 Feb 1997 17:09:34 +0000 In-Reply-To: Adrian Chadd's message of Thu, 11 Jan 1996 01:36:11 +0800 (WST) Message-ID: Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.2.25/XEmacs 19.14 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Adrian Chadd writes: > > I as just wondering if there was any plans to introduce java binary > compatibility into the FreeBSD kernel. Not a java compiler / appletviewer > in the KERNEL itself, but something like what LInux does, ie you echo the > paths of the java executer and appletview into > /proc/sys/kernel/java-interpreter and ../applet-viewer, and everytime a > java binary is run, it runs the appropriate program with the right > arguements, and there is your nice java binary running. :) If this happens at all, it should probably use sysctl to give the interpreter names to the kernel. -- Doug Rabson, Microsoft RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 171 734 3761 These are not the opinions of Microsoft. FAX: +44 171 734 6426