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Subject: Re: Need to rebuild libkvm,ps,w
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> > Actually, isn't it really the memory image arguments to ps/w/et. al.
> > that cause the problem?  We could go to /proc tomorrow if /proc
> > were mandatory ...
> 
> /proc _is_ mandatory.  ps(1) only displays half the information
> without it.

This was a "hidden" jab at the utility of the commands in a crash
situation (/proc for the crashed system is a procedural interface,
and therefore unavailable).  I should probably have ben more
forthright, but people seem to get upset when I call something crap.

8-)


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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