On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:58:19AM +0200, Marcin Dalecki wrote: > Myron J. Mayfield wrote: > >I attempted to install the linux java sapgui on FreeBSD 5.0, but the jar > >file only unpacked part of it. I then copied the files from my Redhat 9 > >machine. I linked up all the linux libraries needed and attempted to > >start it. It gives me an error saying cant find /dev/shm. I tried > >adding this to /dev but was unable to. Does anyone have any > >information? Thank you. I am somewhat new to FreeBSD but have used > >linux for Many years. > > For some unexcused reason there is the trend in Linux to represent > everything as kind of a wired half finished pseudo file system. /proc pipe > devicefs sysctl and so on... The list is really long. Even shared memmory is > mapped to ehrm.... a filesystem. This is "expected" to be mounted at > /dev/shm by the system. You can't expect FreeBSD to follow this path... Linux isn't the only system that does this (learn a little, criticize less). -- Thomas E. Dickey <dickey_at_invisible-island.net> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.netReceived on Sun Jul 06 2003 - 15:12:34 UTC
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