On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 06:43:03PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
Certainly it will have a hard time working on any of the BSDs anytime soon, if it relies on devfs more than trivially; they have no concept of it, nor are they really likely to anytime soon. Use of /proc should also, prefferably, be limited to traditional /proc items and not the Linux view of using it as a sysctl area (though there is
Another option is for the bsd port to write their own installer module. If something is radically easier to do using devfs or proc I don't think it's reasonable to forbid it because of a hypothetical bsd port. Mike Stone