Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 01:07:20 GMT From: Adam David <adam@veda.is> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need to rebuild libkvm,ps,w Message-ID: <199706200107.BAA12886@veda.is> References: <199706160147.LAA08666@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <19970617080302.DA29718@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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^^^^^^^^^^;)
>/proc _is_ mandatory. ps(1) only displays half the information
>without it.
ps(1) does not even display that half of it when the struct changes, which
seems to be the main push of this thread. Have you ever sat at a half-hosed
system and been forced to reboot simply because there was no PID info
available about that one process that needed to be killed? This can
happen when /usr/src/sys diverges from /usr/src (or perhaps it was a
shared symlink includes thing). It would be nice for ps(1) to become
decoupled from the kernel so this can no longer happen.
--
Adam David <adam@veda.is>
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