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- From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: [FIX] PS FIX FOR 99p2 !!!
- Keywords: ps fix 99 p2
- Message-ID: <PuyTwB3w165w@kf8nh.wariat.org>
- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 21:16:48 EST
- References: <andrewc.726028260@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au>
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- Organization: Brandon S. Allbery's Personal System
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- andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:
- > , as it saves LOTS of hassle every time you upgrade your kernel.
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- Not to mention being able to quick&dirty it by cat'ing files in /proc :-)
- (see the "free" program in the /proc-based ps distribution)
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- > >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
- >
- > Well, you can just mount /proc onto /proc
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- I spent half the day today trying to find the kernel definition for
- /dev/proc before finally looking for the mount() syscall and discovering
- that some filesystem types (like /proc) ignore the device argument :-)
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- ++Brandon
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- He's BAAAACK! Brandon S. Allbery NOTE NEW ADDRESS!!! kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org
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