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Date:      Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:08:05 -0500
From:      Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
To:        Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net>
Cc:        Jan Koum <jkb@ethereal.net>, Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problem on 4.1-RC (4.0-stable)
Message-ID:  <20000720210805.G58968@holly.calldei.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000720185329.I79232@PacHell.TelcoSucks.org>
References:  <20000718210328.A79232@PacHell.TelcoSucks.org> <39752A0B.9CE57DF3@urx.com> <20000719125751.B79232@PacHell.TelcoSucks.org> <39760973.CCFE2BB9@urx.com> <20000720153953.G79232@PacHell.TelcoSucks.org> <20000720165145.A36013@ethereal.net> <20000720185329.I79232@PacHell.TelcoSucks.org>

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On Thursday, July 20, 2000, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
> Yep, you were right. /dev/null was a plain file. Strange

   Just guessing here--ps probably uses /dev/null for all the
files passed to kvm_open(3).  I imagine it uses kvm_getprocs for
its process listing, which is implemented using sysctl.

-- 
|Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com>
|Programmer: One who is too lacking in people skills
|            to be a software engineer.
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