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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Subject: Re: Missing stuff: pstat, tset, NIS?
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:42:16 GMT
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- Scott S. Bertilson (scott@geom.umn.edu) wrote:
- : In article <SCT.93Jan18162524@barley.dcs.ed.ac.uk> sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) writes:
- : >In article <lma.727207214@dayton.Stanford.EDU>, lma@dayton.Stanford.EDU (Larry Augustin) writes:
- : >
- : >Pstat? Nope. Anyway, the kernel structures have been changing too
- : >rapidly to make such a beast easy to maintain...
- :
- : Don't know where it is at in terms of revisions, but there was
- : a very interesting program posted on the net several years ago
- : which was called "nlist". It provided a simple scripting language
- : which made it possible to print anything that could be found in
- : the kernel namelist with some formatting and even computation
- : involving previously retrieved values. I haven't done much with
- : it lately, but it strikes me that maybe I should dig it up and
- : see if it would port to Linux relatively easily.
- : Scott
-
- The current idea appears to be to impliment examination of any kernel
- data structures by using the /proc filesystem.
- The format of this is likely to be more stable (once all the bits have
- been put in) than diging arround in /dev/kmen
- i.e. no recompiling tools/rebuilding databases whenever the kernel is changed!
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