Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 13:01:46 +0800 From: Xin LI <delphij@frontfree.net> To: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ps -e not outputing environment in -CURRENT? Message-ID: <20040702050146.GA452@frontfree.net> In-Reply-To: <20040702041540.GA40999@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> References: <20040702035643.GA1946@frontfree.net> <20040702041540.GA40999@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 02:15:40PM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote: > On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 11:56:43AM +0800, Xin LI wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > It seems that ps -e has lost its functionality or its behavior has > > been changed between 4-STABLE and 5-CURRENT, or I have did something > > incorrect? > [...] > > Is this intentional? > > This is documented, but not very well: > > The process file system (see procfs(5)) should be mounted when ps is exe- > cuted, otherwise not all information will be available. > > As far as I'm aware, this only affects the -e option and possibly the > displaying of argument lists too long to fit into the kernel's argument cache. > > See PR 54604 for a fix from pjd@ for ps -e that has not been committed yet. Thanks for your information! BTW. IIRC, procfs(5) is going to be deprecated in future releases (6-CURRENT or so?), is this going to be committed before 5-STABLE is branched? Cheers, -- Xin LI <delphij frontfree net> http://www.delphij.net/ See complete headers for GPG key and other information. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFA5Ow6OfuToMruuMARArzhAJ99WkU8DopIifMCCHhiZNg4W5ixRACfbCGt Ni5Ae+HNvhXv/QKi01tbTyo= =Syxt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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