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From: jtk@atria.com (John Kohl)
Subject: Re: swapinfo under NetBSD-1.0
In-Reply-To: banshee@boing.resort.com's message of 24 Nov 1994 01:30:01 GMT
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>>>>> "John" == John Vinopal <banshee@boing.resort.com> writes:
In article <3b0qap$3k7@nic.scruz.net> banshee@boing.resort.com (John Vinopal) writes:

John> whats procfs and why would I want to use it?

/procfs is used to get information about and manipulate currently
running processes.  If you plan on doing any debugging of processes with
gdb, you want to have /procfs mounted.
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John Kohl <jtk@atria.com> or <jtkohl@mit.edu>
working for but not representing:	Atria Software
sometimes hacking on:			NetBSD/i386