Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 06:35:05 -0700 From: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for comments on a new utility... Message-ID: <20020611063505.B97611@FreeBSD.ORG> In-Reply-To: <xzpr8jec7jd.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 02:40:54PM %2B0200 References: <20020611051517.A87966@FreeBSD.ORG> <xzpr8jec7jd.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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* Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> escriurères > Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > ps(1)'s internals, however, didn't seem quite right to me, but after about > > 10 minutes reading kvm(3) manpages and recalling some tricks with recursive > > programming to produce an N-level tree with as many as N-1 elements, I had > > come up with a simple utility to print out a "process tree". > > Don't do anything in ps(1) that depends on libkvm. It has to be > doable with sysctl as well. I believe I can get pid, ppid, username (or at least uid [yay user_from_uid]), etc., from sysctl(3) at least as easily as with kvm(3). -- Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Perception is prejudice / Don't classify me / Accept me as me / Not what you see To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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