Subject: Re: OpenOffice for NetBSD/sparc
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/13/2001 08:02:52
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 01:35:56PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> It fails with segmentation fault is procfs is not mounted on
> /proc. (Deduced by looking at a rather large ktrace output).
> At the very least it would be nce if it could fail gracefully
> if it cannot locate '/proc/<pid>/cmdline', though it would
> obviously be even better if it did not need it.
What is OpenOffice using /proc/<pid>/cmdline for? We added that to NetBSD
*only* for Linux emulation -- it should not be used for native NetBSD
programs. In fact, no program should rely on /proc being present at all.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>