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- From: hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: [FIX] PS FIX FOR 99p2 !!!
- Keywords: ps fix 99 p2
- Message-ID: <Jan.2.14.28.37.1993.26330@geneva.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 19:28:38 GMT
- References: <andrewc.725976478@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:
-
- >Okay, in my quest to do something useful for the Linux community, here are
- >some patches to get ps up and running with 99p2..just a header file location
- >change and an already-used variable, but, well, it's handy to have it done
- >for you, I guess...
-
- I'd encourage people to try the ps and free based on /proc, which is
- in BETA/procps/procps.tar.Z on tsx-11. It works fine for me without
- any recompilation under 0.99pl1, 0.99pl2, and 0.99pl2 with Tytso's new
- serial code. It's intended to do away with the need for a new version
- of ps with each release. I'd suggest that people who want to work
- with ps and friends spend your time on that code, e.g. maybe adapting
- top to use the new code.
-
- There has been some question about which device should be used in
- mounting /proc. As far as I can tell, it's irrelevant. Hlu's base
- distribution has an fstab that mounts it on /dev/proc, but his /dev
- doesn't have a /dev/proc. It still works (though you can't unmount
- it).
-
- (By the way, there were two problems installing the new serial code.
- The resulting serial.c was missing a semicolon, and setserial.c -- a
- support utility for using the new features -- appears to be two copies
- of the same thing concatenated. The fixes are obvious: the compiler
- will tell you where the semicolon is needed, and setserial.c needs to
- be truncated after the first copy of main.)
-