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Date:      Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:39:15 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "Pierre Y. Dampure" <pierre.dampure@westmarsh.com>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys user.h
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102202029580.19282-100000@besplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010219175624.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, John Baldwin wrote:

> about if needed.  The current kinfo_proc is now actually worse than before,
> because if something changes in teh middle, then all the programs such as
> ps(1), top(1) etc. just misparse the information instead of telling you that
> proc chagned as they did in the past.  Of course, a better way of doing this

Things in the middle must not change.  They must be initialized with whatever
the used to be, or with dummy values if that is harmless.  There would have
been no problems if this rule were followed for the priority fields.  struct
priority can't be used in struct rusage anyway, since it is a kernel struct.

Bruce


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