Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 13:15:22 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need to rebuild libkvm,ps,w Message-ID: <199706162015.NAA18052@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199706160147.LAA08666@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Jun 16, 97 11:17:10 am
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> > Dumb question, why can't we isolate the apps from the proc data structures? > > Because the in-kernel infrastructure for arb. data retrieval isn't > there yet. Actually, isn't it really the memory image arguments to ps/w/et. al. that cause the problem? We could go to /proc tomorrow if /proc were mandatory and we didn't care about ps'ing crash dumps (doing that sems to me to be the job of the kernel debugger, anyway). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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