Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!inesc!unl!unl!jpc From: jpc@fctunl.rccn.pt (Jose Pina Coelho) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Revision of PC 1.5.10 ps.c Message-ID: Date: 3 Sep 90 09:12:57 GMT References: <4217@crash.cts.com> Sender: news@fctunl.rccn.pt (USENET News System) Organization: Universidade Nova de Lisboa -- Lisbon, Portugal Lines: 27 In-Reply-To: cwr@pnet01.cts.com's message of 2 Sep 90 12:36:03 GMT >In article <4217@crash.cts.com> cwr@pnet01.cts.com (Will Rose) writes: > [...] The present version > works, but is a bear to change when recompiling the system; partly because > it uses a non-ASCII database, and partly because it either expects permanent > symbol tables in kernel, mm and fs, or the images on a specific path. > [...] Wouldn't it be possible to have a system call to give that info to ps ? I know that in unix, ps normaly reads /vmunix to get symbols, but if you boot with shoelace, then (generaly) you want to delete the system files from ramdisk. Besides, minix is a development (read kernel hacking) system, so mm fs & kernel are suposed to be very dynamic. Andy? -- Jose Pedro T. Pina Coelho | BITNET/Internet: jpc@fctunl.rccn.pt Rua Jau N 1, 2 Dto | UUCP: jpc@unl.uucp 1300 Lisboa, PORTUGAL | ARPA: jpc%hara.fctunl.rccn.pt@mitvma.mit.edu Home phone: (+351) (1) 640767 - If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister ?