Veractiy and FreeBSD

Sheldon Hearn sheldonh at starjuice.net
Wed Nov 5 03:48:25 PST 2003


On (2003/11/05 11:58), Kim Needham wrote:

> This is caused by a check that determines if the /proc filesystem is on
> the same device as the file being read to prevent reading in files of 
> infinite length.
> Since FreeBSD 5.x seems to no longer use a mounted proc filesystem but proc
> is mounted on the root device, this check will need to be removed for 
> FreeBSD 5.x.

That doesn't sound like a "long uninformative story".  Thanks for the
feedback.  Vendor support of FreeBSD is always appreciated. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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