RE: [MiNT] expanded /proc vs new /kern

[Jo-Even.Skarstein@gjensidige.no]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin-Eric Racine [mailto:q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi]
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 1:50 AM
> To: MiNT List
> Subject: [MiNT] expanded /proc vs new /kern
> 
> Given that most of those I can think of live in the Unix domain,
> not as commercial GEM applications, I cannot think of any reason
> why they couldn't be patched and recompiled.

You are making the mistake to assume that everything that's not commercial
is open-source. It's not. I can't speak for the rest of the community, but
atleast two of my own programs (Taskbar and Connexion(2)) depends on the
*documented fact* that /proc is a 8+3 filesystem. There are also other,
closed-source programs/apps that use /proc (although I don't know if they
will break with long filenames), MultiStrip, Hideaway, SpeedUp, Paral and
ps.cpx to name a few.

I suggest that if the full name is really needed, then a new ioctl on
/proc/.[pid] would suffice. Guido already suggested an ioctl to retrieve the
argument-vector which also will return the complete filename of the process.

Jo Even Skarstein