Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

[Robert Huff]

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?= writes:

>  First of all, Happy New Year.

	And to you,

>  The application I want to port, makes an extensive use of the
>  procfs in Linux. It gathers a lot of information from those files
>  (cpuinfo, meminfo, devices, filesystems, modules, etc...)
>  
>  As I know, FreeBSD has some kind of procfs but more limited in
>  terms of information. My questions is how should I proceed now? I
>  see two options.
>  
>  1 - Try to rely the porting on the compatibility procfs from FreeBSD
>  2 - Do the things in a completely different way (which one is this?
>  Invoking sysctl system call?)

	As I understand it, use (2).
	Use of FreeBSD procfs is possible, but heavily discouraged due
to known security issues.


				Robert Huff