From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 1 10:52:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA28149 for current-outgoing; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 10:52:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA28134 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 10:52:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id TAA06825 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 19:51:10 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA04063 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 19:51:10 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id TAA19423 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 19:47:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199608011747.TAA19423@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Just a note that libkvm/ps/etc need to be recompiled To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 19:47:31 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199607312002.NAA02651@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Jul 31, 96 01:02:18 pm" 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 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > There doesn't seem to be a good reason for using the kvm interface > instead of procfs. Unfortunately, to commit to that, procfs would > have to become mandatory, since a shared interface would be hard. procfs is already semi-mandatory. ps(1) will omit certain information if procfs is not mounted (like the start time). -- 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. ;-)