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...permail/freebsd-emulation/2003-August/000136.html A few days ago, i found myself in need of mounting a vmware image on my old 4.7-STABLE system. To do this, i needed linprocfs functioning properly, but this module failed with an "exec format error". Further investigation revealed that nextpid was undefined. So i checked the source, and discovered that in kern/kern_fork.c, nextpid was defined statically. It was defined nowhere else, but in i386/linux/linprocfs/linprocfs_misc.c, it was declared "extern". Since the system needed a new pair of shoes anyway, i promptly upgraded...