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From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: bin/138146: [patch] w(1) and pkill(1) don't work on core files
 without specifying -N
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The following reply was made to PR bin/138146; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To: Mikolaj Golub <to.my.trociny@gmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/138146: [patch] w(1) and pkill(1) don't work on core files
 without specifying -N
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:51:24 +0100

 On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:17:15 +0300
 Mikolaj Golub <to.my.trociny@gmail.com> wrote:
 
 > I have noticed the same behaviour for ps utility (at least under
 > FreeBSD7.2). It also has _PATH_DEVNULL as default for nlistf and does
 > not work without -N option.
 
 There are more problems with ps(1) and crash dumps; they're all
 detailed in kern/137890 .   I'm wondering if systat might have the same
 problem too, since it uses "/dev/null" but it might be intentional
 since it's in a failure path.
 
 -- 
 Bruce