Marco van de Voort wrote:
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 09:08:19AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
So be fair, I don't think I have ever come across a Linux distro that
doesn't include the ps binary as standard. And I have used Linux since
1996. Even *BSD and *Solaris include the ps binary as standard too.
Yes, but the ps parameters vary. I'm using this stuff in my FPC build
script on Linux and Solaris.
Can anybody say what the xBSD situation is? What's in /proc/nnn ?
In BSD /proc/<a pid> contains
[marcov@dragon ~]$ ls /proc/44539
cmdline ctl etype file map rlimit status
[marcov@dragon ~]$
but afaik BSDs can turn /proc off, and this is commonly done so on servers.
/proc is only a SysV compatibility feature there,
most BSD-own tools work via other interfaces (like sysctl(3))
Turning it off is getting rarer though (probably linux converging).
Thanks Marco, very much worth knowing.
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