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From: longshot@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Longshot (tm))
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: Displaying all processes info.
Keywords: VMUNIX
Message-ID: <1991Apr8.003022.10287@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 91 00:30:22 GMT
References: <7275@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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In article <7275@bgsuvax.UUCP> pthonda@bgsuvax.UUCP (Killer B) writes:
>Hi, I am trying to read the status of all the processes information 
>in the system. I came to know that the file 'vmunix' contains a pointer 
>to a location in file 'kmem'.This location has another pointer to the 
>starting of process structures in kmem, which would give me process 
>information. Can anybody tell me how to get the pointer in the file 
>'vmunix' . Should I use nlist, if so , in what way.

	I have done a little playing with this and had a few questions
  myself...  (1) Is there a good reference to help in programming with
  references to special files like kmem?  (2) How would one find the
  list of all processes for a user by tty?

--longshot
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