Re: Pre-Depends changed for dpkg on GNU/kFreeBSD
Hi!
On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 04:45:13 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> After checking the s-s-d and libkvm code again now, it seems it does
> not require any kvm_read(3) at all, so /dev/mem should not be needed
> either, could you try the attached patch on a jail? (I need to recover
> my damaged GNU/kFreeBSD system, as now I only have access to porter
> boxes. :/ )
I just reinstalled my GNU/kFreeBSD system and I tested it outside a
jail, and ktrace tells me it does not access /dev/mem anymore.
I've also fixed an issue when kvm_getprocs(3) does not find any pid,
which might have also been involved in the errors you where seeing.
> On Thu, 2014-10-02 at 22:03:37 +0100, Steven Chamberlain wrote:
> > No problem. Does that mean you'd happily revert to using linprocfs?
>
> If there's no better option, yes. Right now I'm thinking to merge
> the attached patch for 1.17.14 as a hotfix, and then switch to a pure
> sysctl(2) implementation for 1.17.15, so that we can get rid of the
> libkvm dependency. Otherwise revert to linprocfs. Does that sound good?
Something else I just realized now is that libkvm pulls in libbsd and
libfreebsd-glue into the pseudo-essential set on GNU/kFreeBSD, which
makes the situation a bit worse. So as stated above I'll be switching
to sysctl(2) later on, but I'm open to a revert if this is deemed
problematic too. Thanks for input Steven!
Regards,
Guillem
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