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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!lrz-muenchen.de!fauern!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail 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 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 12 Message-ID: <43pv4e$c59@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <43kt94$lgd@nnrp.cs.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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. ;-)