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Date:      Thu, 3 Jan 2008 16:46:47 +0100
From:      "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?=" <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com>
To:        "Ivan Voras" <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)
Message-ID:  <1bd550a00801030746y29b2c028j9351b99e8684f66c@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <flip0s$du0$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <1bd550a00801030514i5007c67t509e05f08c820dd@mail.gmail.com> <flip0s$du0$1@ger.gmane.org>

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On Jan 3, 2008 2:47 PM, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Fernando Apestegu=EDa wrote:
>
> > 1 - Try to rely the porting on the compatibility procfs from FreeBSD
> > 2 - Do the things in a completely different way (which one is this?
> > Invoking sysctl system call?)
> >
> > I would like to know from you which one is the best approach.
>
> The best way to do it is to abstract the OS-dependant stuff from the
> application into separate modules / classes / libraries / etc. and then
> proceed by the second approach (use procfs on linux, use sysctl on FreeBS=
D).

OK, the code is modular enough to separate the dependant code into
different places.

>
> The first approach would probably be tedious if the application is
> non-trivial but there's also linprocfs which behaves more like the linux
> procfs but it's also incomplete.

Yes, that's my problem. In Linux I can get from /proc/cpuinfo for
example: name, model, stepping, cache size, clock speed, supported
extensions, etc...
But using sysctl in FreeBSD (sysctl -a) I can only see name and vendor
for the cpu and a few more things. Am I limited to the variables
showed in sysctl -a?

Thanks in advance.

BTW if this is isn't the proper list to continue with this thread, let me k=
now.

Cheers.

>
>



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