Re: [MiNT] What's in, what's out?

[Guido Flohr <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>]

On Fri, Nov 26, 1999 at 04:12:49PM +0100, Julian Reschke wrote:
> And yes, that's great and this is exactly the kind of innovation I *do*
> like. Rather than a new signal for UPS or a new filesystem to make the
> Linux-ps happy.

The KGMD ps is a bad joke. And yours is not an option because you refuse
to publish the sources and at least Sparemint will not rely on any
proprietary software.  Call that a political decision if you like, but it
is a decision of the people that have invented the Sparemint project and
that happen to be the same guys that actively develop FreeMiNT.

As a consequence, we need a new ps and the procps package for Linux
is probably not the worst.  But it needs the functionality of the
Linux /proc pseudo filesystem.  Instead of writing a new ps from the
scratch and hack on the kernel procfs.c I can just as well write a clean
kernel api that offers all functionality we need.

Ciao

Guido
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