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Date:      22 Nov 2001 23:18:01 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Kernel Thread scheduler
Message-ID:  <xzpsnb6xxeu.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <20011122140835.A96598@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
References:  <200111221142.fAMBgvh11425@mass.dis.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111221353230.44466-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20011122140835.A96598@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

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Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> writes:
> Certainly, a debugger would need to know about a process.
> I suspect ps, ptrace, and a few others also need some
> knowledge about struct proc.

No, struct kinfo_proc mostly.

> libkvm/kvm_getswapinfo.c -o kvm_getswapinfo.So
> cc -O -pipe  -DLIBC_SCCS -I/usr/src/lib/libkvm -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include  -c /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c -o kvm_proc.o
> cc -fpic -DPIC -O -pipe  -DLIBC_SCCS -I/usr/src/lib/libkvm -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include  -c /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c -o kvm_proc.So
> /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c: In function `kvm_proclist':
> /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c:120: storage size of `proc' isn't known
> /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c:121: storage size of `pproc' isn't known
> /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c: In function `kvm_proclist':
> /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c:120: storage size of `proc' isn't known
> /usr/src/lib/libkvm/kvm_proc.c:121: storage size of `pproc' isn't known

This is probably bogus.  Top(1) also bogusly stores struct kinfo_proc
* as struct proc *, though the code that dereferences the pointers
casts them back.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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