Hi Guillem,
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 03:04:26AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 20:52:17 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 05:05:15AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > > Patch available at:
> > >
> > >
> > > http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~dtbartle/opensolaris/patches/dpkg-1.14.20-kopensolaris-gnu.diff
> >
> > Actually, please do only include the {os,cpu}table part of the patch
> > (attached for your convenience). The /proc layout is different than
> > the one provided by Linux, and we're not ready to provide a patch for
> > that yet.
>
> Ok, added the arch in git now.
Thanks!
> And, yes the s-s-d part seemed fishy
> anyway. You could probably port libkvm from {Open,}Solaris and use that
> instead, but AFAICS the libkvm from Solaris is slightly different than
> the one from the BSDs, stuff like kvm_getproc -> kvm_getprocs.
>
> But then it might be more "portable" to make use of /proc, instead of
> libkvm, as you avoid the problem of not being able to mix 32bit userland
> and 64bit kernels and similar.
We're currently using /proc in our patched version. I suppose we'll stay
that way, it's simpler and doesn't bring license trouble with CDDL stuff.
We'll send a patch for that when we're reasonably sure this is what we want
to do, and that s-s-d is working properly.
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