Re: FreeBSD 5.3 setup help

"Chris Vetter" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.gnustep.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[...]
> You've made you point clear that you dislike the usage of procfs.  The 
> question remains, do we have a /dependency/ that leads to certain 
> features of the API not functioning on FreeBSD?
[...]

I never said the API wouldn't work on FreeBSD.

I said, even though there is no /proc on FreeBSD 5.x, you can always
use --disable-proc (or something similar) on 'configure' since BSD
does have libkvm.

The problem with NSProcessInfo is, that if libkvm does NOT exist, and
tries /proc instead, it most likely will fail, because NSProcessInfo
tries to open and read file '/proc/<pid>/cmdline' which may well exist
on Linux, but does not necessarily exist on other systems. Or if it does,
it does not necessarily have the expected information.

On a side note regarding NSProcessInfo+load:
The arguments passed to kvm_open() differ from what Solaris' kvm_open()
expects and kvm_getprocs() doesn't even exist on Solaris. Contrary to
what the opening comment states about being compatible.

-- 
Chris

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