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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!viper.inow.com!news1.aplatform.com!newsfeed1.aimnet.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!panix!news.panix.com!not-for-mail From: bryan@panix.com (Bryan Althaus) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.osf.osf1 Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Followup-To: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.osf.osf1 Date: 13 Dec 1996 15:06:13 -0500 Organization: Somewhere in Manhattan Lines: 32 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <58scvl$4pk@panix.com> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <58ccqm$q13@web.nmti.com> <58hj11$bb6@panix.com> <58hs93$h63@web.nmti.com> <E26rtz.23F@jadpc.jd.com> <32AE95AB.7DE14518@lehman.com> <58p7ni$l1a@panix.com> <58phsj$m28@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:92489 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1815 comp.unix.internals:11616 comp.unix.osf.osf1:17055 Vic Abell (abe@cc.purdue.edu) wrote: : bryan@panix.com (Bryan Althaus) writes: : : >No /proc and worse under 10.x the process info is hidden. The author of : >top had to invent his own process structure. No real thread support : >(hey even OS/2 has them!), and if you use DCE threads, have fun debugging : >them. Solaris support for threads is a dream. Soft-realtime on HP-UX?.. : >Actually, thread support on most other UNIX's isn't great either as is : >soft real-time. : : This isn't an accurate comment about HP-UX 10.x and the state of : its proc structure definition. : : HP-UX 10.0 does have a struct proc definition in <sys/proc.h>. : The definition disappears at HP-UX 10.10. : : I don't believe it was the top author who invented a private proc : struct definition, it was the lsof author. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Thanks Vic for the update. Since you are the author of lsof, great program, you would know best! :) I actually remember the above from a post of yours. I : : The current HP-UX 10 machine module in the 3.4 top sources from : eecs.nwu.edu:pub/top (dated August 29, 1996) doesn't seem to support : HP-UX 10.10 or 10.20; at least it has no private proc structure : definition, yet uses ``struct proc'' in several places. : : The serious HP user can get a full proc structure definition via : Q4. : Sorry but what is Q4??