From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 6 17:12:34 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 5518837B401 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 17:12:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bloatware.dickey.net (pcp741060pcs.reston01.va.comcast.net [68.49.156.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BADD43FCB for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 17:12:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@invisible-island.net) Received: from bloatware.dickey.net (tom@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h670Eic9001539; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:14:44 -0400 Received: (from tom@localhost) by bloatware.dickey.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Debian-6.4) id h670EiWG001537; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:14:44 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:14:44 -0400 From: Thomas Dickey To: Marcin Dalecki Message-ID: <20030707001443.GA1530@invisible-island.net> References: <3F08B199.3050409@comcast.net> <3F08B79B.2040805@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F08B79B.2040805@gmx.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i cc: "Myron J. Mayfield" cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/shm X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: dickey@herndon4.his.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 00:12:34 -0000 On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:58:19AM +0200, Marcin Dalecki wrote: > 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... Linux isn't the only system that does this (learn a little, criticize less). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net