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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!headwall.Stanford.EDU!kithrup.com!sef From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: What happened to these projects ? Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. References: <1r17cqINNqgi@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at> <CGD.93Apr20123848@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Message-ID: <C5sstr.84s@kithrup.com> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1993 19:58:24 GMT Lines: 18 In article <CGD.93Apr20123848@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: >In article <1r17cqINNqgi@fstgds01.tu-graz.ac.at> chmr@edvz.tu-graz.ac.at (Christoph Robitschko) writes: >>/proc filesystem >sef@kithrup.com, maybe Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm still trying to puzzle out the vm interface, and replace ptrace(). I'm trying to do other stuff right now, too (pathconf(), for example). >>kernel configuration utility >what does this mean? Dunno, but 4.4 has a "sysctl()" system call, which can do all sorts of nifty things (I've implemented POSIX' sysconf() as a wrapper for sysctl()); it can both get and set various things, so that might be what he meant. (You can, for example, change maxproc, and maxofiles, and a few other things.)