From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 20 19:11:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 635EB37B608 for ; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 19:11:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@holly.calldei.com) Received: from holly.calldei.com ([208.191.149.190]) by mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.01.05.12.18.p9) with ESMTP id <0FY00095HZCPQ1@mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net> for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:10:02 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.calldei.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA61435; Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:08:09 -0500 (CDT envelope-from chris) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 21:08:05 -0500 From: Chris Costello Subject: Re: problem on 4.1-RC (4.0-stable) In-reply-to: <20000720185329.I79232@PacHell.TelcoSucks.org> To: Ulf Zimmermann Cc: Jan Koum , Kent Stewart , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chris@calldei.com Message-id: <20000720210805.G58968@holly.calldei.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.4i References: <20000718210328.A79232@PacHell.TelcoSucks.org> <39752A0B.9CE57DF3@urx.com> <20000719125751.B79232@PacHell.TelcoSucks.org> <39760973.CCFE2BB9@urx.com> <20000720153953.G79232@PacHell.TelcoSucks.org> <20000720165145.A36013@ethereal.net> <20000720185329.I79232@PacHell.TelcoSucks.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, July 20, 2000, Ulf Zimmermann wrote: > Yep, you were right. /dev/null was a plain file. Strange Just guessing here--ps probably uses /dev/null for all the files passed to kvm_open(3). I imagine it uses kvm_getprocs for its process listing, which is implemented using sysctl. -- |Chris Costello |Programmer: One who is too lacking in people skills | to be a software engineer. `--------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message