Remove ioctl-based procfs support on Solaris

[Rainer Orth]

Hi Pedro,

> This all looks good to me FWIW, with a couple tiny nits below.
>
>>     /proc file system, which is used on many versions of Unix
>>     as a means for debuggers to control other processes.
>
> Could you update this comment in procfs.c to mention Solaris
> explicitly, please?  Likewise the first line of the file.

done, as well as in the Solaris-only proc-*.c files.

>> -   Examples of the systems that use this interface are:
>> -
>> -     Irix
>> -     Solaris
>> -     OSF
>> -     AIX5
>
> ...
>
>> -   There are three methods for doing this function:
>> -   1) Newest: read/write [PCSET/PCRESET/PCUNSET]
>> -      [Sol6, Sol7, UW]
>> -   2) Middle: PIOCSET/PIOCRESET
>> -      [Irix, Sol5]
>> -   3) Oldest: PIOCSFORK/PIOCRFORK/PIOCSRLC/PIOCRRLC
>> -      [OSF, Sol5]
>> -
>> -   Note: Irix does not define PR_ASYNC.
>> -   Note: OSF  does not define PR_KLC.
>> -   Note: OSF  is the only one that can ONLY use the oldest method.
>> + This function is done using read/write [PCSET/PCRESET/PCUNSET] [Sol6,
>> Sol7].
>
> I think the "[Sol6, Sol7]" above referred to Solaris 2.6-7.
> Should we remove that?

Certainly: this was used to refer to structured procfs, I believe.

The following patch on top of the previous one should address all this,
and John's comment as well.

	Rainer

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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University


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