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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: Just a note that libkvm/ps/etc need to be recompiled
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 15:02:23 -0700 (PDT)
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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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