From owner-freebsd-commit Sat Dec 30 06:19:44 1995 Return-Path: owner-commit Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA19597 for freebsd-commit-outgoing; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 06:19:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA19585 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 06:19:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA19575 for cvs-bin-outgoing; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 06:19:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA19570 Sat, 30 Dec 1995 06:19:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id PAA21249; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 15:19:23 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA04603; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 15:19:22 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id PAA00991; Sat, 30 Dec 1995 15:18:21 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199512301418.PAA00991@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ps ps.1 To: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Date: Sat, 30 Dec 1995 15:18:20 +0100 (MET) Cc: joerg@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-bin@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Peter Wemm" at Dec 30, 95 10:12:09 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-commit@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk As Peter Wemm wrote: > > > . mention the need for procfs > > Hmm. this was a suprise to me... I thought procfs was optional, but it > doesn't look like, since libkvm reads the /proc//mem files. It's more optional than device npx. :) > Also, it sounds like it's time to put a warning in GENERIC and LINT > saying that procfs is needed for 'ps' and 'gdb' to work completely. > (gdb uses it to attach to processes) No need to force it into the kernel config. I'm almost always modloading it. It must only be ensured to be in the default fstab file. -- 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. ;-)