Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!watcsc!sean
From: sean@watcsc.waterloo.edu (Sean Goggin)
Subject: Re: Revision of PC 1.5.10 ps.c
Message-ID: <1990Sep9.000656.25775@watcsc.waterloo.edu>
Summary: add /proc
Reply-To: sean@watcsc.waterloo.edu (Sean Goggin)
Organization: University of Waterloo Computer Science Club
References: <4217@crash.cts.com> <JPC.90Sep3101257@zen.fctunl.rccn.pt> <7468@star.cs.vu.nl> <JPC.90Sep7093940@fogo.fctunl.rccn.pt>
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 90 00:06:56 GMT

In article <JPC.90Sep7093940@fogo.fctunl.rccn.pt> jpc@fctunl.rccn.pt (Jose Pina Coelho) writes:
>>In article <7468@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>>   More system calls?  Bah humbug (except for those mandated by POSIX).
>
>Then we could have the structure that is in the ps database inserted
>at the beggining of the kernel, then, when you boot the system, the
>kernel initialization would get the relevant information in place.
>This way ps would read /dev/kmem to get position of the tables.

Better I think is /dev/usermemory
that you can mount on /proc
and use ls to see processes or ps 
shared text could be shown as a hard links


total 654
-rw-r--r--   1 sean     minix      55800 Sep  5 16:11 D#PID1
-rw-r--r--   2 sean     minix      29089 Sep  5 16:11 T#PID1
-rw-r--r--   1 sean     minix      15901 Aug 25 00:03 S#PID1
-rw-r--r--   2 sean     minix      55800 Sep  5 16:11 D#PID2
-rw-r--r--   1 sean     minix      29089 Sep  5 16:11 T#PID2
-rw-r--r--   1 sean     minix      15901 Aug 25 00:03 S#PID2
											

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