From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 11 16:08:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA24304 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 16:08:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA24285 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 1998 16:08:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA24622; Thu, 12 Nov 1998 01:09:39 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 01:09:39 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: The Hermit Hacker cc: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= , daeron@Wit401305.student.utwente.nl, shawn@cpl.net, osa@etrust.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: StarOffice-5.0... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > Just curious, but what exactly does that '/proc/*/cmdline' thing > "do", and is there any reason why it is inappropriate for it to be a > standard part of our /proc? It\s just a copy of the argv[0]. Why the programs can\t access their argv[0] instead is beyond me - looks like a very stupid thing... > > When talkign with friends that use Linux, and talking about our > /proc file system, they think its hilarious that I can't go into proc and > find out what irqs are being used by the system...maybe I'm missing > something, but about the only way I can do it currently is to look through > dmesg output? Is there another way? >From my POV, it's hilarious to go to /proc to read the hardware parameters of the system - the name "proc" is supposed to mean "info related to processes", isn't it? Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message