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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: pure /proc ps?
To: black@zen.cypher.net (Ben Black)
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 09:40:54 -0700 (MST)
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> on solaris you can chmod -s /bin/ps and users are then only able to see 
> their own processes because it is all based on /proc.  freebsd uses 
> /dev/kmem and /dev/mem (in addition to /proc?) so that is not possible.
> 
> is there any hope of a pure /proc ps on freebsd?

% man ps
PS(1)                        UNIX Reference Manual                       PS(1)

NAME
     ps - process status

SYNOPSIS
     ps [-aCcehjlmrSTuvwx] [-M core] [-N system] [-O fmt] [-o fmt] [-p pid]
        [-t tty] [-U username] [-W swap]

Not as long as "-M core", "-N system", and "-W swap" exist to allow
running ps against system-dump images.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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