Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 12:22:18 +0100 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux ps(1) for FreeBSD Message-ID: <3688BB6A.40F80E67@scc.nl> References: <3688B050.B0E97AA9@scc.nl> <19981229212208.V32696@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > > if not; is somebody currently porting ps(1)? > > if not; is ps(1) needed in other situations that a port is at all justified? > > The problem is that ps(1) reflects some of the kernel's most intimate > parts. It's very difficult to fake a Linux environment at this > level. About the best you can hope for is to fake something which > Oracle will accept. That's the idea: make a version of ps(1) that mimics the behaviour os a Linux ps(1). I don't think a true port of ps(1) is necessary or even feasable. A version which handles the most common process info. should be possible. Any application that depends on specific intimate Linux info. probably goes to the /proc filesystem itself, don't you think? > Do you have more details? Yes. What do you have in mind? :-) I'll try to extract the "ps|grep" pipe details from a ktrace. That should give you a better context. marcel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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