Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 21:22:08 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux ps(1) for FreeBSD Message-ID: <19981229212208.V32696@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3688B050.B0E97AA9@scc.nl>; from Marcel Moolenaar on Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 11:34:56AM %2B0100 References: <3688B050.B0E97AA9@scc.nl>
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On Tuesday, 29 December 1998 at 11:34:56 +0100, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > background: > > The Oracle Application Server for Linux uses ps(1) and grep(1) to monitor the > creation of the necessary processes. The WRB could be easily tricked, but the > web server itself seems to want the 'forest' option of ps(1). In short I > don't at this time know if the web server doesn't start because it doesn't > get the right output from ps(1) or that some other problem exists... > > questions: > > Does anybody know if there is a port of the Linux ps(1) for FreeBSD? I don't know, but I'd consider it *extremely* unlikely. > if not; is somebody currently porting ps(1)? > if not; is ps(1) needed in other situations that a port is at all justified? The problem is that ps(1) reflects some of the kernel's most intimate parts. It's very difficult to fake a Linux environment at this level. About the best you can hope for is to fake something which Oracle will accept. Do you have more details? Is Larry Ellison still alive? Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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