Re: [osol-code] Process argument list cut-off

2009-08-22 Thread Dale Ghent
On Aug 22, 2009, at 6:57 AM, casper@sun.com wrote: So a situation at $WORK today has me wondering something - why is it that the pr_psargs member of psinfo is limited to 80 bytes (therefore, characters) ? Is this mainly due to historic reasons? Well, /proc uses public structures; on

Re: [osol-code] Process argument list cut-off

2009-08-22 Thread Casper . Dik
>So a situation at $WORK today has me wondering something - why is it >that the pr_psargs member of psinfo is limited to 80 bytes (therefore, >characters) ? Is this mainly due to historic reasons? Well, /proc uses public structures; once they're defined, you cannot change them. But there ar

[osol-code] Process argument list cut-off

2009-08-21 Thread Dale Ghent
So a situation at $WORK today has me wondering something - why is it that the pr_psargs member of psinfo is limited to 80 bytes (therefore, characters) ? Is this mainly due to historic reasons? I realize that expanding the size of that member will certainly break binary compatibility, but