Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 2 Jul 2004 13:01:46 +0800
From:      Xin LI <delphij@frontfree.net>
To:        Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ps -e not outputing environment in -CURRENT?
Message-ID:  <20040702050146.GA452@frontfree.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040702041540.GA40999@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
References:  <20040702035643.GA1946@frontfree.net> <20040702041540.GA40999@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

--cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 02:15:40PM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 11:56:43AM +0800, Xin LI wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >=20
> > It seems that ps -e has lost its functionality or its behavior has
> > been changed between 4-STABLE and 5-CURRENT, or I have did something
> > incorrect?
> [...]
> > Is this intentional?
>=20
> This is documented, but not very well:
>=20
>      The process file system (see procfs(5)) should be mounted when ps is=
 exe-
>      cuted, otherwise not all information will be available.
>=20
> As far as I'm aware, this only affects the -e option and possibly the
> displaying of argument lists too long to fit into the kernel's argument c=
ache.
>=20
> See PR 54604 for a fix from pjd@ for ps -e that has not been committed ye=
t.

Thanks for your information!

BTW. IIRC, procfs(5) is going to be deprecated in future releases (6-CURRENT
or so?), is this going to be committed before 5-STABLE is branched?

Cheers,
--=20
Xin LI <delphij frontfree net>	http://www.delphij.net/
See complete headers for GPG key and other information.


--cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQFA5Ow6OfuToMruuMARArzhAJ99WkU8DopIifMCCHhiZNg4W5ixRACfbCGt
Ni5Ae+HNvhXv/QKi01tbTyo=
=Syxt
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e--



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040702050146.GA452>