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Date:      Mon, 11 Jan 1999 08:36:55 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
To:        Robert Watson <robert+freebsd@cyrus.watson.org>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: proposed mod to ps(1)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9901110835120.6084-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990110214955.11143B-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Robert Watson wrote:

> On 7 Jan 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> 
> > Wouldn't it make sense to add an option to ps(1) to display the login
> > class of each process?
> 
> I was under the impression that 'login class' was really a property of the
> class database in userland, and that the kernel didn't know what class you
> were in, just the current process properties (resource limits, etc). 
> Programs such as 'login' set their resource limitations based on these
> class entries.  As such, ps would not know the 'class' on a per-process

while on the subject... Does any of you know how login time limits are
enforced? I couldn't find any place where it is done, and the real-life
evidence seems to support my view that currently they are being just
ignored...


Andrzej Bialecki

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