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Date:      Thu, 1 Aug 1996 10:07:51 -0400
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Developer <dev@fgate.flevel.co.uk>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Just a note that libkvm/ps/etc need to be recompiled
Message-ID:  <9608011407.AA09584@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.93.960801144726.11680B-100000@fgate.flevel.co.uk>
References:  <199608011243.HAA05038@dyson.iquest.net> <Pine.BSI.3.93.960801144726.11680B-100000@fgate.flevel.co.uk>

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<<On Thu, 1 Aug 1996 14:48:21 +0100 (BST), Developer <dev@fgate.flevel.co.uk> said:

> I wonder if it might be an idea to have a kernel call that gets the proc
> structure size, that way libkvm/ps/w etc wouldn`t have to be re-compiled
> when the structure changed?

The actual size of the structure makes little difference, it's where
the fields are placed in it that is of importance.  (You could always
make it self-encoding for size...)

-GAWollman

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