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Date:      Mon, 6 May 2002 15:48:49 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        default <default013subscriptions@hotmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Quick Question Regarding PS
Message-ID:  <20020506154849.A34255@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <OE30yyWrX4qrvAsp4Xg0000219d@hotmail.com>; from default013subscriptions@hotmail.com on Sun, May 05, 2002 at 10:11:17PM -0500
References:  <OE31t4I9pTl4EnAv1Og000020b2@hotmail.com> <20020506032521.A26795@jsite.lefort.net> <OE30yyWrX4qrvAsp4Xg0000219d@hotmail.com>

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On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 10:11:17PM -0500, default wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Thank you for your help, but the man page actually doesn't say anything
> about this. The line you refer to mentions that procfs should be mounted
> when running ps, not that ps is necessary for procfs to work properly, which
> would be the kind of problem that I am looking for. (In other words I'm
> looking for applications that are dependant on ps to be there, not things
> that ps is dependant on.)
> 
> Maybe I'll just have a perl script designed. Thanks for you help.

Even if you write a perl script, what's to stop your users from
compiling a copy of ps(1) on a 4.1 box, and then running it on your
machine? Your only real solution is to upgrade your machine to a later
version.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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