Date: Fri, 05 May 2006 20:43:00 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@gmail.com>, Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Cc: Jim Stapleton <stapleton.41@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD equiv of /proc? Message-ID: <C0816954.D83B%ceri@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <8a0028260605050744w3fd3a563we02e925b49d20235@mail.gmail.com>
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On 5/5/06 15:44, "Jeff Rollin" <jeff.rollin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jeff.
>
> On 05/05/06, Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 5 May 2006 10:07:03 -0400
>> "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have a proc filesystem on my computer, but it's empty. I'm used to
>>> linux, where you can do stuff like 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' to get
>>> information about the system. What is the BSD equivalent of this, or
>>> is it /proc, and I'm just missing something?
>>
>> If you absolutely can't live without /proc, install the linuxulator
>> and mount linproc. It will give you a linux compatible /proc.
> Will that only work for Linux programs?
It is available to them all (if they know to look in /compat/linux/proc,
which is the canonical place for the linprocfs mount - Linux programs get
redirected there automagically).
I don't know if stuff would break if you mounted a linprocfs at /proc.
Ceri
--
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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