Message 125389 - Python tracker

Message125389

Author	pitrou
Recipients	gregory.p.smith, jyasskin, nadeem.vawda, pitrou, rosslagerwall
Date	2011-01-05.01:01:23
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> Of course, procfs isn't standard in any case; would it be necessary to > have a fallback for systems without it? Or do all *nix systems that we > care about provide it? /proc/self doesn't exist under OpenSolaris. You have to use /proc/<pid>. And I suppose there can be circumstances where /proc isn't available at all (chroot perhaps?). So we would definitely have to provide a fallback.

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> Of course, procfs isn't standard in any case; would it be necessary to
> have a fallback for systems without it? Or do all *nix systems that we
> care about provide it?

/proc/self doesn't exist under OpenSolaris. You have to use /proc/<pid>.
And I suppose there can be circumstances where /proc isn't available at
all (chroot perhaps?). So we would definitely have to provide a
fallback.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-01-05 01:01:25	pitrou	set	recipients: + pitrou, gregory.p.smith, jyasskin, nadeem.vawda, rosslagerwall
2011-01-05 01:01:23	pitrou	link	issue8052 messages
2011-01-05 01:01:23	pitrou	create