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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: GNU os suggestions -- system data interfaces
Message-ID: <1772@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 7 Jun 89 19:39:09 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >Well, that's part of it.   The other part is that thrashing through
 >the kernel's name list takes a lot of time on small machines.   It is
 >highly undesirable to have to do this on a regular basis.

In which case perhaps "ps" should somehow cache the results of a scan
through the name list (and through "/dev", etc.) - as both the 4.3BSD
and later S5 versions do.