Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!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: 7 Sep 90 08:39:40 GMT References: <4217@crash.cts.com> <7468@star.cs.vu.nl> Sender: news@fctunl.rccn.pt (USENET News System) Organization: Universidade Nova de Lisboa -- Lisbon, Portugal Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl's message of 6 Sep 90 18:38:56 GMT >In article <7468@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: > More system calls? Bah humbug (except for those mandated by POSIX). Then we could have the structure that is in the ps database inserted at the beggining of the kernel, then, when you boot the system, the kernel initialization would get the relevant information in place. This way ps would read /dev/kmem to get position of the tables. -- 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 ?