From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 17 01:17:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA02206 for current-outgoing; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 01:17:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA02201 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 01:17:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA00811 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 10:17:48 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA17359; Tue, 17 Jun 1997 08:03:02 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970617080302.DA29718@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 08:03:02 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need to rebuild libkvm,ps,w References: <199706160147.LAA08666@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <199706162015.NAA18052@phaeton.artisoft.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de-noreply (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199706162015.NAA18052@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Jun 16, 1997 13:15:22 -0700 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > > Because the in-kernel infrastructure for arb. data retrieval isn't > > there yet. > > Actually, isn't it really the memory image arguments to ps/w/et. al. > that cause the problem? We could go to /proc tomorrow if /proc > were mandatory ... /proc _is_ mandatory. ps(1) only displays half the information without it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)