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Date:      Tue, 29 Feb 2000 07:28:22 +0000
From:      Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>
Cc:        Dmitrij Tejblum <tejblum@arc.hq.cti.ru>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ps ps.1
Message-ID:  <38BB7516.D1E27312@originative.co.uk>
References:  <Pine.OSF.4.10.9907042113200.31966-100000@bragg>

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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Dmitrij Tejblum wrote:
> 
> > Hmm. It seems neither 'A' nor 'S' can be printed in the "additional
> > state"  field. Why do you think they are about madvise()?
> 
> The code which handles these flags went away in r1.22 of print.c:
> 
> -----
> revision 1.22
> date: 1997/08/03 08:25:00;  author: peter;  state: Exp;  lines: +4 -98
> Kill #ifndef NEWVM etc.  It affected a lot of other things besides
> VM structure (eg: credentials etc) and it's highly unlikely we'll ever
> get to see the "tainted" BSD<=4.3 VM code in public use.  Although it
> indicated the way some things used to be done, it obfuscates things too
> much.
> -----
> 
> So it looks like this feature never in fact existed in our code. I'll remove
> the references unless someone can tell me I'm wrong.

It doesn't look like this was ever resolved. Shouldn't we remove the
references to `A' and `S' in the man page since our "ps" doesn't support
them?

Paul.


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