From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 6 16:57:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A97A737B404 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 16:57:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 77F9C43FF3 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 16:57:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mdcki@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 3460 invoked by uid 65534); 6 Jul 2003 23:57:45 -0000 Received: from cvpn012.gwdg.de (EHLO gmx.net) (134.76.22.12) by mail.gmx.net (mp022) with SMTP; 07 Jul 2003 01:57:45 +0200 Message-ID: <3F08B79B.2040805@gmx.net> Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 01:58:19 +0200 From: Marcin Dalecki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030701 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, pl, ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Myron J. Mayfield" References: <3F08B199.3050409@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <3F08B199.3050409@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/shm X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2003 23:57:48 -0000 Myron J. Mayfield wrote: > I attempted to install the linux java sapgui on FreeBSD 5.0, but the jar > file only unpacked part of it. I then copied the files from my Redhat 9 > machine. I linked up all the linux libraries needed and attempted to > start it. It gives me an error saying cant find /dev/shm. I tried > adding this to /dev but was unable to. Does anyone have any > information? Thank you. I am somewhat new to FreeBSD but have used > linux for Many years. For some unexcused reason there is the trend in Linux to represent everything as kind of a wired half finished pseudo file system. /proc pipe devicefs sysctl and so on... The list is really long. Even shared memmory is mapped to ehrm.... a filesystem. This is "expected" to be mounted at /dev/shm by the system. You can't expect FreeBSD to follow this path... > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >