apmd and other archs

Josh Huber huber at debian.org
Fri Nov 24 13:42:58 EST 2000


On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:40:15AM +0100, Michel wrote:
> Avery Pennarun wrote:
>
> > Is this a typo?  Why is status information in /etc?
>
> Because it's from pmud, which can't create /proc entries.

I think his problem was with the fact that it's in /etc, when it
should be in /var.

> > It's always better, IMHO, to keep Linux userspace as similar as possible
> > between different architectures.  If pmud has features that apmd doesn't
> > have, or vice versa, I would rather merge them than keep them separate.  In
> > the process, we might as well work on making the kernel interfaces similar
> > too.  That's the whole _point_ of the kernel.
>
> I agree there.

Yes, I've thought this would be a good idea for a while
now...Definately think it's a good idea. hmm...

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