Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 15:18:20 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Cc: joerg@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-bin@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ps ps.1 Message-ID: <199512301418.PAA00991@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951230215500.6208B-100000@jhome.DIALix.COM> from "Peter Wemm" at Dec 30, 95 10:12:09 pm
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As Peter Wemm wrote: > > > . mention the need for procfs > > Hmm. this was a suprise to me... I thought procfs was optional, but it > doesn't look like, since libkvm reads the /proc/<pid>/mem files. It's more optional than device npx. :) > Also, it sounds like it's time to put a warning in GENERIC and LINT > saying that procfs is needed for 'ps' and 'gdb' to work completely. > (gdb uses it to attach to processes) No need to force it into the kernel config. I'm almost always modloading it. It must only be ensured to be in the default fstab file. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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