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From: mmeyer@next.com (Morris Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: ps alx
Summary: non-existant in Mach
Keywords: NeXT Mach
Message-ID: <289@next.com>
Date: 14 Nov 90 18:14:35 GMT
References: <4098@nttcoin.ntt.jp>
Reply-To: mmeyer@next.com (Morris Meyer)
Organization: NeXT, Inc.
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In article <4098@nttcoin.ntt.jp> suzuki%nttcoin.ntt.jp@relay.cs.net (MUNeYOSHI Suzuki) writes:
>I tried "ps alx" on NeXT (OS1.0), but result was
>
>F  UID   PID  PPID CP PRI NI ADDR VSIZE RSIZE WCHAN STAT TT  TIME COMMAND
>3    0     0     0  0 -50-25    0 14.3M 3.53M     0 R <  ?  55:37  (kerne
>1    0     1     0  0   0  0    0  928K  184K     0 S    ?   0:00 init -x
>
>All WCHANs are displayed 0. 
>Does anyone know, this is NeXT bug or NeXT/MACH specification?  
>
The BSD w_chan field in the proc structure does not exist in the Mach
kernel.  It has been replaced by the wait_event in the kernel's thread
structure.  Nevertheless, this is probably a bug on our part.

		--morris

		morris meyer (mmeyer@next.com)
		software engineer
		NeXT OS Group