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- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.wizards
- Subject: Re: reading a processes u-area
- Message-ID: <16607@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 20:21:56 GMT
- References: <1993Jan23.161039.10412@unilabs.uucp> <1993Jan23.182008.29935@sco.com>
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- >(Unfortunately, even if you *do* port this code to another system
- >I hope you realise that there is a good chance that the u-block you
- >get back won't look much like the one on the first system ....)
-
- And not all UNIX implementations (or "UNIX-compatible implementations")
- necessarily even *have* U areas (SunOS 5.x might not, and some future
- BSD might not, either).
-