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Vlad GALU wrote:
>         Hello. I am trying to write a monitoring program
> which makes use of the kvm interface. My problem here
> is that I couldn't find a detailed description of the
> kinfo_proc structure anywhere in the system sources or
> Google. I have special interests towards the kp_proc &
> kp_eproc members. I can't get the process names until
> I know what those structures look like. I also posted this
> message to freebsd-stable, because I understand that
> the kinfo_proc structure has changed a bit between
> -stable and -current. My platform is 4.8-STABLE.

<sys/user.h>

By the way, accessing this type of data directly from the
kernel is evil.

-- Terry