Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 21 May 1997 13:09:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Cc:        terry@lambert.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pure /proc ps?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.91.970521130833.17872P-100000@zen.cypher.net>
In-Reply-To: <199705211743.KAA03570@phaeton.artisoft.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
can't it just skip the non-/proc parts if it doesn't have the offending 
options ont he command line?

On Wed, 21 May 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:

> > > > is there any hope of a pure /proc ps on freebsd?
> > >
> > > Not as long as "-M core", "-N system", and "-W swap" exist to allow
> > > running ps against system-dump images.
> >
> > so why does ps try to access anything other than /proc when i *don't* use 
> > those options?
> 
> So that it's not twice as large as it would otherwise be for containing
> two seperate copies of the data lookup code.
> 
> 
> 					Terry Lambert
> 					terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
> 



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.LNX.3.91.970521130833.17872P-100000>