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Date:      Thu, 1 Aug 1996 15:02:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Just a note that libkvm/ps/etc need to be recompiled
Message-ID:  <199608012202.PAA03676@bubba.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199608011747.TAA19423@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Aug 1, 96 07:47:31 pm

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> > 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).

IMHO, making procfs mandatory would be a good thing.

-Archie

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