Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 17:13:25 -0700 From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.dk>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>, Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: ps on 4.0-current Message-ID: <199911240013.dAO0DQQ83185@orthanc.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Nov 1999 23:57:42 GMT." <19991123235742.A4913@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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>>>>> "David" == David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> writes:
David> I guess it goes with the "stop ps showing the environment"
David> changes. If you remove one it makes sense to remove the
David> other.
After you verify that this change isn't going to break things that
assume they can see the *argv list via ps(1). I.e. lightning bolts
that do 'kill -MUMBLE `ps -ax|grep foo`'. Which may not be elegant
style, but sometimes is the only workable solution.
Where this could be an issue is binaries with multiple names. E.g.
if bar is a symlink to foo, and you execute bar, ps (old style)
reports:
83158 p0 S 0:00.00 bar (foo)
I *suspect* in the new scheme when running non-root, you don't see
bar show up. If that's the case, we've broken working code.
Now, if instead printing *argv[] follows the -e semantics I posted to
the list a couple of days ago, all should be well.
--lyndon
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