Hello! On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 03:19:20PM +0530, Madhusudan C.S wrote: > (a) I am Madhusudan.C.S. I am working on implementing a GNU/Linux compatible > /proc pseudo filesystem. The major goal is to make the /proc available on > Hurd, so that procps and psmisc tools like kill, pgrep, pkill, top, killall > among other things which depend on /proc run out of the box. I have > implemented the important parts of /proc till now and have been able to get > pgrep working fine till now (pkill also seems to work, but some testing is > needed). I will be working on making more procps tools available.
Good! :-) > (b) As both antrik and Samuel suggested procfs should be a part of main Hurd > tree. Can you please tell me the rules? Hmm. I'd say it should clearly reside in an external module, on its own. As it is a stand-alone thing, a separate translator. How do the others reason about why it should be yet-another subdirectory in the main Hurd tree? Regards, Thomas
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