Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!vsedev!logan
From: logan@vsedev.VSE.COM (James Logan III)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: How do you find the user structure?
Summary: I have tried...
Message-ID: <1279@vsedev.VSE.COM>
Date: 13 Dec 88 21:59:05 GMT
References: <214@fesk.UUCP> <13232@ncoast.UUCP> <9338@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Reply-To: logan@vsedev.VSE.COM (James Logan III)
Organization: VSE Software Development Lab
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In article <9338@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> root@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US
(The Beach Bum) writes:
# If you ARE on a system where the ublock is not contiguous, you at least

... Like mine...

# should be able to determine the method used to store that one page.

Yeah, sure.  I spent two weeks doing this once.  I finally got
ahold of the sources for the "ps" command and I still can't
determine the method.  (Talk about spaghetti code... Yuck!)

I didn't look at the sources for very long, but it wasn't
immediately apparent.  I'll look at the source again this
weekend maybe and explain the method that my version of
System V uses.

# Look at the page table entries [ god willing ... ], and once you have
# figured out how you got that one page, you should be able to figure out
# how to get the rest of them.

			-Jim


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