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Thanks, I'll get to testing this. did you look at any of neal's procfs code? I'm getting a 404 error though. --- Jon Arney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been busy the last week or so putting together a first pass at > a Linux style /proc filesystem translator. It seems to have barely > enough smarts in it now to support the 'procps' package (not that > procps is better than the native Hurd utilities). The intent here > was to start with a Linux-2.4 style /proc filesystem and then move > on to bigger and better by supporting a 'native' Hurd mode /proc > filesystem which models the Hurd's behavior better rather than > just emulating a Linux style /proc. i.e. rather > than /proc/<pid>/* we might have /proc/tasks/<pid>/<thread>/* > and /proc/tasks/<pid>/<children>/* and other cool stuff. > It would also be possible for /proc to only show processes owned > or grouped by you so that you can't see other users processes. > > The biggest problem with the Linux-2.4 /proc filesystem emulation > is that many of the things available under Linux's /proc filesystem > either have no equivalent under the Hurd, or are not redily > available through existing data structures/RPCs because it's a > fundamentally different architecture. > > If anyone's interested, I've put it out at > http://orac.ensor.org:8080/hurd/hurd-procfs/ > with some documentation on what it is, what it does, etc. > Let me know if you can't get to it because I've had problems > from time to time with the network. > > The beauty (and danter) of the Hurd is that it's an entirely > independent package and doesn't need to be compiled into the > /hurd tree. It supports the traditional > automake;autoconf;./configure;make scheme. Thank you, I'm having a slight problem with httpfs because it isn't done this way. Now getting to httpfs: 1: Please make source tarballs compilable outside the hurd source. That is don't include Makeconf until the translator is ready to be part of the hurd source. 2: Please, if you do include Makeconf, please include either Makefile.in, with or without a configure script. 3: Since httpfs is supposed to be compiled as part of the hurd source Makeconf needs to be edited to include the appropriate libxml headers. If need be I'll make a self-contained tarball of httpfs this weekend, and send a Makefile patch here. Sorry about bitching, I just want to compile and play with cool things out of the box ;). Note: libxml2 is compiled for Debian GNU/Hurd. ===== James Morrison University of Waterloo Computer Science - Digital Hardware 2A co-op http://hurd.dyndns.org Anyone refering this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
