From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 2 04:14:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3328716A4CE for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 04:14:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from robbins.dropbear.id.au (012.a.009.mel.iprimus.net.au [210.50.112.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E28B43D2F for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 04:14:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tim@robbins.dropbear.id.au) Received: by robbins.dropbear.id.au (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 85526421C; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 14:15:40 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 14:15:40 +1000 From: Tim Robbins To: Xin LI Message-ID: <20040702041540.GA40999@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> References: <20040702035643.GA1946@frontfree.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040702035643.GA1946@frontfree.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ps -e not outputing environment in -CURRENT? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 04:14:29 -0000 On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 11:56:43AM +0800, Xin LI wrote: > Hi folks, > > It seems that ps -e has lost its functionality or its behavior has > been changed between 4-STABLE and 5-CURRENT, or I have did something > incorrect? [...] > Is this intentional? This is documented, but not very well: The process file system (see procfs(5)) should be mounted when ps is exe- cuted, otherwise not all information will be available. As far as I'm aware, this only affects the -e option and possibly the displaying of argument lists too long to fit into the kernel's argument cache. See PR 54604 for a fix from pjd@ for ps -e that has not been committed yet. Tim