Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 08:59:27 -0800 From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM> To: Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.dialix.com> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <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: <199512301659.IAA03212@corbin.Root.COM> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 30 Dec 95 22:12:09 %2B0800." <Pine.BSF.3.91.951230215500.6208B-100000@jhome.DIALix.COM>
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>On Sat, 30 Dec 1995, Joerg Wunsch wrote: >> joerg 95/12/30 05:52:04 >> >> Modified: bin/ps ps.1 >> Log: >> Small man page tweaks: >> >> . mention the need for procfs >> . make it clear that default sorting is first by ctty, then by PID > >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. > >BTW, libkvm should only try to grab /proc/<pid>/mem from if ISALIVE(kd) is >true.. Otherwise doing a ps on a dead kernel is going to look pretty >interesting.. :-) We should probably remove support for "dead kernels". It has never worked in 2.x anyway and I'm fundamentally opposed to hacking in cruft to drudge around in the kernel's crash dump and attempt to parse paging data structures. That's what debuggers are for. That goes against the principal of why we're using procfs in the first place. -DG
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