From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 16 18:56:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F2E615011; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 18:56:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA12645; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 21:56:41 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id VAA01692; Thu, 16 Dec 1999 21:56:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 21:56:10 -0500 (EST) To: Julian Elischer Cc: current@freebsd.org, sef@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux /proc and vmware. In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14425.42251.714289.32020@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Julian Elischer writes: > > might I suggest that we make a decision to allow procfs to be mounted with > a -linux flag and act more like the linux programs expect.? > (particularly we could mount it at /compat/linux/proc with the -linux > flag). > That would be wonderful. I'd also like to see us have enough information in /proc to be able to divorce ps & friends from libkvm. It would be nice to be able to have most tools continue to work if you have mismatched kernels & userlands. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message