Paul Goyette writes: > > i don't think that filemon(4) is done properly or at the right > > layers. it should hook directly into the vfs layer itself, not > > hijack system calls. it certainly still doesn't work properly > > for netbds32 binaries or any other binaries. > > > > your changes are helpful, but it's still very very broken. > > I agree that it probably needs to be completely re-written if it were > to be generally useable. But, given that the only real use-case we > have for it so far is make(1) (and even then, only in "meta-mode"), I > think that the re-write effort far out-weighs the benefits.
right, i agree. it's still not useful for mips64 platforms today -- since those default to 32 bit binaries on 64 bit kernel. same with running 32 bit chroot builds on i386. > Besides, I don't know enough about the vfs layer to get it right! :) not too late to learn :-) .mrg.
