Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 12:54:00 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.lm.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ProcFS Message-ID: <199601132054.MAA00196@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Jan 1996 15:16:03 EST." <Pine.BSI.3.91.960113151509.10796A-100000@ivory.lm.com>
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>What is Procfs, and do I care? If I'm not examining the state of >processes by hand, does it offer any performance improvement? Why should >I keep this configured into a kernel? It's used by libkvm and thus ps, w, etc, to access other process's memory (for command args, etc). It's really not optional. -DG David Greenman Core Team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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