Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 11:54:06 +0800 From: Jarvis Cochrane <jarvis@guru.wow.aust.com> To: Mike Hoskins <mike@snafu.adept.org> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Selfstyled arrogance? Message-ID: <37A7B94F.FFBE9384@guru.wow.aust.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908032013220.13604-100000@snafu.adept.org>
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Mike Hoskins wrote: > > On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > > > these interfaces, resulting in software that can't be run on anything but > > a Linux system, or a system that emulates the god-awful Linus /proc mess. > > Which is, essentially, my point... We should emulate Linux where good, > BSD-sense indicates... but we should not necessarily choose to implement > stupid/broken junk. ;) Agreed. I tend to the opinion that the whole point of the linux emulation is to allow FBSD to tap into the wealth of desktop/office software that's available for linux, making FBSD a more attractive desktop platform. People want to run, say, StarOffice - most don't particularly care whether it runs under Linux or FBSD or Solaris or whatever. While I'm sure that there are exceptions, I can't see that there is much call for 'office' software to be mucking about in /proc. And _besides_, there's stuff like... urm... libgtop which aims to provide a platform independent way of getting at process and memory data. Perhaps we would be better served by ensuring that FBSD has a really good implementation of such a library, and asking people to write to _that_. Too idealistic, perhaps, Jarvis -- Jarvis Cochrane, IT Support Office of Student Administration | jarvis@guru.wow.aust.com Murdoch University | cochrane@central.murdoch.edu.au Western Australia | [61|0] 8 9360 6128 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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