From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 2 05:54:37 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 CE3DE16A4CE for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 05:54:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.FreeBSD.org.cn (dns3.freebsd.org.cn [61.129.66.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80A2943D45 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 05:54:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from delphij@frontfree.net) Received: (qmail 18374 invoked by uid 0); 2 Jul 2004 05:52:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO beastie.frontfree.net) (218.107.145.7) by mail.FreeBSD.org.cn with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 2 Jul 2004 05:52:21 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.frontfree.net [127.0.0.1]) by beastie.frontfree.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C3DF11698; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 13:01:48 +0800 (CST) Received: from beastie.frontfree.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (beastie.frontfree.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 02460-04; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 13:01:47 +0800 (CST) Received: by beastie.frontfree.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id D881C11697; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 13:01:46 +0800 (CST) Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 13:01:46 +0800 From: Xin LI To: Tim Robbins Message-ID: <20040702050146.GA452@frontfree.net> References: <20040702035643.GA1946@frontfree.net> <20040702041540.GA40999@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040702041540.GA40999@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-key-ID/Fingerprint: 0xCAEEB8C0 / 43B8 B703 B8DD 0231 B333 DC28 39FB 93A0 CAEE B8C0 X-GPG-Public-Key: http://www.delphij.net/delphij.asc X-Operating-System: FreeBSD beastie.frontfree.net 5.2-delphij FreeBSD 5.2-delphij #80: Thu Jun 24 17:30:33 CST 2004 delphij@beastie.frontfree.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BEASTIE i386 X-URL: http://www.delphij.net X-By: delphij@beastie.frontfree.net X-Location: Beijing, China X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at frontfree.net 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 05:54:37 -0000 --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 02:15:40PM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote: > On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 11:56:43AM +0800, Xin LI wrote: > > Hi folks, > >=20 > > 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? >=20 > This is documented, but not very well: >=20 > The process file system (see procfs(5)) should be mounted when ps is= exe- > cuted, otherwise not all information will be available. >=20 > 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 c= ache. >=20 > See PR 54604 for a fix from pjd@ for ps -e that has not been committed ye= t. Thanks for your information! BTW. IIRC, procfs(5) is going to be deprecated in future releases (6-CURRENT or so?), is this going to be committed before 5-STABLE is branched? Cheers, --=20 Xin LI http://www.delphij.net/ See complete headers for GPG key and other information. --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA5Ow6OfuToMruuMARArzhAJ99WkU8DopIifMCCHhiZNg4W5ixRACfbCGt Ni5Ae+HNvhXv/QKi01tbTyo= =Syxt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e--