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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Anyone ever add a proc fs to BSD?
Date: 26 Jul 94 17:38:10 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <313e26$rau@ccnet.ccnet.com> jantypas@ccnet.com (John Antypas) writes:

>Has anyone ever added a proc fs into a BSDI varient before?  (BSDI 1.1
>would be great).  In theory, the fs work isn't nasty, the real trick will
>be getting at process context and memory pages.  Any pointers that I can
>look at?

Your subject line is sort of misleading, since both NetBSD and FreeBSD
have had a /proc fs for quite some time.  I don't know if BSDI has
ever added one to their product.

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