A million and one thanks + tax.
Jon Smith
On Sat, 15 May 1999, Andrew Gordon wrote:
> Some while ago, Jon Smith wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone successfully gotten Star Office 5.0 to run multi-user?
> >
>
> I have just solved this. The problem is that StarOffice accesses the
> command line arguments (and hence the "/net" flag needed to install
> multi-user) using the vile /proc/xxx/cmdline mechanism. The FreeBSD
> implementation of this is a hack that only returns argv[0] and therefore
> discards any command line arguments.
>
> The attached patch is still a hack, but is one step closer to the right
> answer: it now returns the right answer if the current process reads its
> own /proc/xxx/cmdline, but still returns only argv[0] if a process
> attempts to read another process' cmdline. This is enough to solve the
> StarOffice problem.
>
> The reason I haven't done the job properly is that I don't know how to
> read an address in user-space for a process other than curproc. From the
> implementation of /proc/xxx/mem, this seems difficult to do.
>
>
>
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Jonathan Smith <jonsm...@physics.purdue.edu>
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