Re: Alternatives to /proc filesystem

2006-05-02 Thread Federico Giannici
Hannah Schroeter wrote: Hello! On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 05:07:07PM +0200, Federico Giannici wrote: My CD finally arrived and I immediately installed 3.9 in the first machine. I immediately found a problem for me: it seems that the GENERIC kernel no longer support the procfs filesystem.

Re: Alternatives to /proc filesystem

2006-05-02 Thread Federico Giannici
Stephen Takacs wrote: Instead of compiling a custom kernel, what is the best way (in Perl) to get the list of current processes? I have to scan the list every few seconds. A couple of years ago, I tried executing an external ps, but found that it sometimes freezed. I found the scanning of the

Re: Alternatives to /proc filesystem

2006-05-02 Thread Luke Bakken
Hannah Schroeter wrote: Hello! On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 05:07:07PM +0200, Federico Giannici wrote: My CD finally arrived and I immediately installed 3.9 in the first machine. I immediately found a problem for me: it seems that the GENERIC kernel no longer support the procfs filesystem.

Alternatives to /proc filesystem

2006-04-30 Thread Federico Giannici
My CD finally arrived and I immediately installed 3.9 in the first machine. I immediately found a problem for me: it seems that the GENERIC kernel no longer support the procfs filesystem. Instead of compiling a custom kernel, what is the best way (in Perl) to get the list of current

Re: Alternatives to /proc filesystem

2006-04-30 Thread Stephen Takacs
Instead of compiling a custom kernel, what is the best way (in Perl) to get the list of current processes? I was going to suggest the Proc::ProcessTable module, but it looks like it doesn't support OpenBSD, and looking at the code reveals it uses /proc in most other OS it works on. :-( I have