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Date:      Wed, 11 Nov 1998 22:06:07 -0500 (EST)
From:      Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        =?X-UNKNOWN?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@freebsd.dk>, Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>, daeron@Wit401305.student.utwente.nl, shawn@cpl.net, osa@etrust.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: StarOffice-5.0... 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811112204070.725-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
In-Reply-To: <199811120248.SAA07015@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote:

> > > 
> > > Hmm, if we should have a Linsux compatible /proc, it really should be
> > > a beast mounted on /compat/linux/proc. If you provide this, I'm sure
> > > it will be received with open arms :)
> > 
> > Linux_procfs sounds good, but if a Linux procfs is implemented... erm....
> > you see, wouldn't this waste resources? unless we'd be emulating the
> > ENTIRE linux proc (which is total crap, and shouldn't exist), it's
> > probably better just to add it to the standard procfs.
> 
> It's hideously crap, and unfortunately syntax-incompatible with ours, 
> which is why we'd have to have a complete emulation.
> 
> Unfortunately, the Linux procfs is also baroque beyond the abilities of 
> the structure of our relatively simple-minded procfs to handle.  It's 
> more like a filesystem manifestation of the sysctl tree.

Any new plans for kernfs? This is the kinda thing (the Linux procfs stuff)
that would go in kernfs. HEY! I know! Why don't we actually implement the
whole sysctl tree itself in /kern/sysctl? ;) Sorry, Linux has forced me to
go insane.

> 
> -- 
> \\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
> \\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
> \\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
> \\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com
> 

Cheers,
Brian Feldman


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