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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: /proc usage problems
Date: 20 Sep 1995 22:55:42 +0200
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Peter Smith <psmith@cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
>
>I'm wondering if anybody has any sample code that demonstrates how to
>use the /proc file system to control a process.  I'm running FreeBSD
>version 2.0.5 on a Pentium.

/proc seems to be rather unused.  killall(1) uses it.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)