Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 10:19:30 +0200 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: marking normal sleep identifiers as such. Message-ID: <xzpu1amzdgt.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <p05210631bb16f2e206df@[128.113.24.47]> (Garance A. Drosihn's message of "Thu, 19 Jun 2003 01:01:15 -0400") References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030618092937.4523A-100000@fledge.watson.org> <p05210631bb16f2e206df@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> writes: > Long ago and in an operating-system far away (and which is not > running anywhere now), we had a similar problem. We ended up > adding a mechanism here the sleeper could specify a character > string which would show up in our equivalent of 'ps'. This > was implemented by having one hardware register which held the > address of the string to display. > > Perhaps something similar could be done in freebsd. You mean like this? des@meali ~% ps -opid,mwchan,command PID MWCHAN COMMAND 7761 pause -zsh (zsh) 16447 select ssh mikrobe 79090 pause -zsh (zsh) 41402 select ssh flood.ping.uio.no 41403 select ssh flood.ping.uio.no 80739 pause -zsh (zsh) 7801 ttyin -zsh (zsh) 41672 select /usr/local/bin/emacs -geometry 90x56-0+0 44723 ttyin -zsh (zsh) 92780 ttyin -zsh (zsh) 2316 select xscreensaver 3767 ttyin -zsh (zsh) 2711 ttyin -zsh (zsh) 15511 ttyin -zsh (zsh) 19014 pause -zsh (zsh) 19033 - ps -opid,mwchan,command DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org
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