Re: kvm problem with FreeBSD

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 6 Aug 2004, at 10:27, Chris B. Vetter wrote:

> stefan@wms-network.de wrote:
> [...]
> > That's the real problem. I've no proc support on my system.
>
> Granted, using /proc is a convenient way of accessing system
> information, without bothering to learn how to use the proper
> interfaces provided by your system.
>
> > I've the /proc directory and it's empty. I think i can
> > remember that i disabled proc support when installing my
> > system because has been said that it's deprected or something
> > like this.
>
> That's one of the changes to the 5.x tree of FreeBSD, yes. You
> do not really *need* /proc to access the information, as there
> are more than enough ways to retrieve those using standard library
> calls.

IIRC the only thing /proc is used for is to obtain the list of arguments
to the current process, thus avoiding the kludge of having to redefine
the function main() in a macro so that GNUstep can get them from
argv before the real main() is called.

What is the appropriate standard library call to obtain the process
arguments under BSD?  If we know that, and can get the configure
script to recognize when this call is available, we can alter
NSProcessInfo.m to use this call instead of /proc

> > I wonder why it worked with previous versions of GNUstep.
>
> I haven't used GNUstep since end of March (because I'm currently
> stuck on bloody XP) so I do not know what may have changed. You
> might want to take a look at the source to NSProcessInfo.

I don't know, but my guess would be the configure script is as
likely a culprit  as NSProcessInfo.m itsself.