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Date:      Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:43:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ps ps.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010410164324.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200104102322.QAA41663@beastie.mckusick.com>

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[ more to Brian than to Kirk ]

On 10-Apr-01 Kirk McKusick wrote:
> In general, I removed the fields that were pointers as they
> seemed rather useless to me on output. If there is a constituency
> out there that finds looking at kernel addresses to be useful,
> I have no objection to them being added back (provided that it
> is done in a way that follows the rules so that it does not
> break ps and friends).
> 
>       Kirk McKusick

If all that is needed is a uniquifier for sessions, then why not use
the actual session ID itself: s_sid?  It's already provided in
kinfo_proc as ki_sid even, ps(1) just doesn't use it at the moment.
That is probably much easier to parse than a kernel address.

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