Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 13:09:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Ben Black <black@zen.cypher.net> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: terry@lambert.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pure /proc ps? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970521130833.17872P-100000@zen.cypher.net> In-Reply-To: <199705211743.KAA03570@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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can't it just skip the non-/proc parts if it doesn't have the offending options ont he command line? On Wed, 21 May 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > is there any hope of a pure /proc ps on freebsd? > > > > > > Not as long as "-M core", "-N system", and "-W swap" exist to allow > > > running ps against system-dump images. > > > > so why does ps try to access anything other than /proc when i *don't* use > > those options? > > So that it's not twice as large as it would otherwise be for containing > two seperate copies of the data lookup code. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. >
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