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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!news-peer.gsl.net!jupiter.nic.dtag.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!news.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de!Uni-Dortmund.DE!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Question 2: /procfs and /kernfs Date: 5 Jun 1997 11:45:57 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 15 Message-ID: <5n68tl$6fg@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <6XpYTddJo$B@rimki.toppoint.de> <5mq4m0$d83@innocence.interface-business.de> <5n27kj$bg@xciv.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6076 paul@xciv.org (Paul Civati) wrote: > > ps(1) uses it, albeit not exclusively (i.e., it uses procfs for part > > of its information, and /dev/mem for another part). > > But ps does work if you're not using procfs, so what does having a > procfs enable ps to do differently/better? Does it also show you the process' start time, and the full proc title without it? Mine doesn't. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j