From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 12 16:28:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA09325 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:28:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA09268 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:28:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00540; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:31:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810122331.QAA00540@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Richard Wackerbarth cc: Mike Smith , fjaccard@urbanet.ch, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [GIMPS] /proc/net/route needed In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 12 Oct 1998 17:14:11 CDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:31:33 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > At 1:06 PM -0500 10/12/98, Mike Smith wrote: > >> Hi, > >> I am trying to run the linux version of the GIMPS (mprime 16.4). It works > >> but does not connect top the server. I did a ktrace and it fails to read > >> /proc/net/route. Is there anyway to have this /proc/net emulated or any way > >> to have mprime connect? > > > >Not immediately. We need to start building an emulation of the > >(supremely bogus) linux /proc hierarchy. > > > >I can't imagine why a user-space application needs to access *routing* > >information. Why not complain to the people that wrote it? > > >From what I know about the GIMPS project, it is probably attempting to > determine if there is an active route to the outside. It does this so > that it can decide whether, or not, to attempt to connect to its external > server. > > I suspect that this was done to avoid bringing up a dialup connection, etc. Sorry, I'll try that again. I can't imagine why anyone would choose this approach, which is clearly unnecessarily system-dependant. -- \\ 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message