From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 6 10:22:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA00998 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 10:22:10 -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 KAA00960 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 10:22:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id TAA19183 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 19:21:59 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA18766 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 19:21:59 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id TAA08903 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 6 Oct 1996 19:17:16 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610061717.TAA08903@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: PS broke again -- what has to be rebuilt to stop this? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 19:17:16 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199610061533.PAA05375@veda.is> from Adam David at "Oct 6, 96 03:33:55 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-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Adam David wrote: > High on my wish list is for ps to produce what output it can, instead of > exiting prematurely. I was also contemplating the idea of a ``mini ps'' that would fit on the fixit floppy, and could display all the information that can be obtained via procfs. Mounting procfs is an easy task, even for the fixit floppy, and i think this should already yield 80 or 90 % of the entire ps(1) information. -- 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. ;-)