Re: NSProcessInfo on linux 2.2 vs 2.4

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Thursday, April 12, 2001, at 10:31 PM, Karl Kraft wrote:

> What 2.4 kernel are you using?  I'm on a Redhat 6.2 system that I've
> upgraded to kernel 2.4.3, with the patches for the loopback file system.
> I'm building straight out of current CVS.

I'm using 2.4.3 on RedHat.

> My understanding of your comment in ChangeLog is that 2.2 kernels would
> always throw away the last argument, not just empty last arguments.

Quoting from the ChangeLog .... 'The new code will lose trailing empty 
arguments
on older kernels'

> I've started rewriting the code to make it cleaner by just reading the 
> file
> twice, once to get the size, and then reading the entire file into 
> memory,
> and simply setting pointers to point to the start of each argument, but
> before I finish, can you see something I'm missing as to why this is 
> working
> for you on 2.4, but not for me?

I checked the current CVS code against the version running on my 
machines ...
and there is a one line difference that must somehow have been lost. 
I've updated
CVS to match my running code.

> Also, I've checked the compile farm at source forge, and the FreeBSD 
> machine
> they have there uses a cmdline in the same file format as linux 2.4.   I
> have no idea why the strip newline stuff appears at the bottom of this 
> file.
> Does anyone have a pointer as to why this code is in there?

Not me.