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Date:      Thu, 1 Aug 1996 14:48:21 +0100 (BST)
From:      Developer <dev@fgate.flevel.co.uk>
To:        "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
Cc:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Just a note that libkvm/ps/etc need to be recompiled
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.93.960801144726.11680B-100000@fgate.flevel.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199608011243.HAA05038@dyson.iquest.net>

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On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, John S. Dyson wrote:

> > 
> > Either way, you'd need a libkvm that matched the kernel, but it would
> > save every day use from all of these recompiles (w and so on, too).
> > 
> That certainly has not been well thought out.  I do think that the
> system is much less useful without procfs.  It is useful even in many embedded
> applications.  Perhaps ps/libkvm/etc need to be thought out better.
> 
> But remember, -current isn't targeted for everyday use :-).

I wonder if it might be an idea to have a kernel call that gets the proc
structure size, that way libkvm/ps/w etc wouldn`t have to be re-compiled
when the structure changed?

Regards,

Trefor S.





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