RE: [MiNT] /proc

["Julian Reschke" <reschke@muenster.de>]

> > From: Julian Reschke [mailto:reschke@muenster.de]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 10:58 AM
> > To: Jo-Even.Skarstein@gjensidige.no; mint@fishpool.com
> > Subject: RE: [MiNT] /proc
> >
> > > Please refresh my memory...
> >
> > MetaDOS's SLB loader and MagiC will retrieve the SLB search
> > list from the
> > current environment. So every process can have a different
> > search path.
>
> OK, I see. I wasn't aware of that, but now it makes much more sense.
>
> > > Why not use an Ioctl on /proc? Oh, I forgot, that will
> >
> > That would be the elegant way (and the MiNT developers should
> > like it as it
> > wouldn't work under MagiC :-).
>
> Well, how is it solved under MagiC? If this is something that's needed in
> both MiNT and MagiC, I can't see why an Ioctl can't be used under MagiC as
> well.

It isn't solved under MagiC. And as SLBs do not show up in u:\proc, there is
nothing you could apply the ioctl() to...