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From: fsg@holos0.UUCP (Frank Glass)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: finding the u structure in /dev/mem on SYSV (how ?)
Message-ID: <1240@holos0.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 88 18:06:40 GMT
Reply-To: fsg@holos0.UUCP (Frank Glass)
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Organization: Holos Software, Atlanta
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I am writing a routine to list UNIX processes and their respective ages.
I need for the source to be reasonably portable across System V (or at
least USG) breeds of machines.  Getting to the proc table seems simple
and consistent:  use nl() to get proc address from /unix, seek to that address
in /dev/kmem and read the first element in.  Any macros I need seem to be in
sys/sysmacros.h.  The next problem is getting to the u structure in /dev/mem.
(I have no problem finding u structures of swapped processes in /dev/swap).
I can't seem to find a _consistent_ macro to relate the pointer or click
number in the proc structure to the offset into /dev/mem.  I am using
AT&T 3b2, NCR Tower 32 and a Xenix 286 machine.  I have solved the problem
on two of the three, but there seems not to be a common solution and I have
many machines to go.

Any email help here will be much appreciated.  
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Frank Glass
Holos Software, Inc.
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