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Date:      Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:20:38 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>
Cc:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, sef@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: linux /proc and vmware. 
Message-ID:  <20167.945422438@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Dec 1999 22:09:02 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912162208150.16082-100000@picnic.mat.net> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912162208150.16082-100000@picnic.mat.net>, Chuck Rob
ey writes:

>> 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.

Such transparancy can be made with with either /proc or sysctl.

>I thought the work was going in precisely the opposite way, so that jail
>could work without any visibility to /proc.

Well, if you want to run linux binaries which insist on peeking into
/proc you will need to mount a procfs there.

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!


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