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>