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Date:      Thu, 16 Dec 1999 21:56:10 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, sef@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: linux /proc and vmware.
Message-ID:  <14425.42251.714289.32020@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912151351570.34717-100000@current1.whistle.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912151351570.34717-100000@current1.whistle.com>

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Julian Elischer writes:
 > 
 > 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).
 > 

That would be wonderful.  

I'd also like to see us have enough information in /proc to be able to
divorce ps & friends from libkvm.  It would be nice to be able to have
most tools continue to work if you have mismatched kernels &
userlands.

Drew

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