Re: linux /proc and vmware.

1999-12-17 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chuck Rob ey writes: 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. Such transparancy can be

Re: linux /proc and vmware.

1999-12-16 Thread Andrew Gallatin
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

Re: linux /proc and vmware.

1999-12-16 Thread Chuck Robey
On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote: 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

linux /proc and vmware.

1999-12-15 Thread Julian Elischer
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