Re: gnome on FreeBSD [procfs]...

[Josh Sled <jsled scam XCF Berkeley EDU>]

| I had the impression that FreeBSD provided a Linux compatible /proc
| file system.

It's got the same name, but they're not compatible:

	FreeBSD:
dr-xr-xr-x  12 jsled   sysadmin  512 May 17 13:47 264
[...]
dr-xr-xr-x  12 root    sysadmin  512 May 17 13:47 74
dr-xr-xr-x  12 daemon  sysadmin  512 May 17 13:47 83
dr-xr-xr-x  12 jsled   sysadmin  512 May 17 13:47 curproc

	Linux [RedHat]:
dr-xr-xr-x   3 root     root            0 May 17 12:44 364
dr-xr-xr-x   3 root     root            0 May 17 12:44 366
dr-xr-xr-x   3 root     root            0 May 17 12:44 384
-r--r--r--   1 root     root            0 May 17 12:44 cmdline
-r--r--r--   1 root     root            0 May 17 12:44 cpuinfo
[...]
-r--r--r--   1 root     root            0 May 17 12:44 loadavg
[...]
-r--r--r--   1 root     root            0 May 17 12:44 meminfo
[...]
dr-xr-xr-x   2 root     root            0 May 17 12:44 net
[...]
-r--r--r--   1 root     root            0 May 17 12:44 stat
[...]
-r--r--r--   1 root     root            0 May 17 12:44 uptime
-r--r--r--   1 root     root            0 May 17 12:44 version

Most of the useful stuff is in those named directories at the bottom...
which FreeBSD doesn't even make a pretense of having.

And not even the information in any of the pid-named directories is the
same... oy vey... 

| Another option is to write a library that would encapsulate all of
| that information on a portable way.

I'm now leaning toward both.  The Linux-compat. procfs would be useful
in it's own right for non-gnome apps [like wmload, wmifs, etc...] and
the library wrappers would be even more useful for gnome programs...

...jsled