From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 15 13:59:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3450152A7; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:59:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: from current1.whiste.com (current1.whistle.com [207.76.205.22]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA92202; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:59:14 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:59:12 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: current@freebsd.org Cc: sef@freebsd.org Subject: linux /proc and vmware. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG for various reasons it looks more an dmore like we will need to do this simply for practical reasons. In particular for vmware, but also for other packages. the hack at http://www.enst.fr/~beyssac/freebsd/ seems a good one to me. (as a starting point. might I suggest that we make a decision to allow procfs to be mounted with a -linux flag and act more like the linux programs expect.? (particularly we could mount it at /compat/linux/proc with the -linux flag). julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message