Re: CVS commit: src/sys/miscfs/procfs

[Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost>]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 08:11:46PM +1000, matthew green wrote:
> 
> "Nicolas Joly" writes:
> > Module Name:        src
> > Committed By:       njoly
> > Date:               Sat Jul 12 09:58:39 UTC 2014
> > 
> > Modified Files:
> >     src/sys/miscfs/procfs: procfs_linux.c
> > 
> > Log Message:
> > Use kproc2 to provide sensible informations for /proc/<pid>/stat.
> 
> hmm, kernel code should really avoid using the userland compat layer.
> you're processing something from one known layout to another known
> layout.. userland needs it because it only knows one of them, which
> has a known forwards/backwards compat layout.

I was trying to avoid duplicating all the needed computation ...
/proc/<pid>/stat is another exact version (kernel) of the userland
processes infos.

Do we need another intermediate layer to fill a kernel only structure
which can then be easily translated to kproc2 ?

-- 
Nicolas Joly

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