From: Andrew J. Cosgriff ! (andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au)
Date: 12/14/92


From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !)
Subject: Re: ps that uses /proc
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 09:37:05 GMT

parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry) writes:

>David Barr (barr@stein.u.washington.edu) wrote:
>>Has anyone written a version of ps that uses the proc file system? I
>>couldn't get my old version of ps to work with linux 0.99, so I wrote
>>my own ps program.

>You need to recompile ps and friends for 0.99. Before I did this ps showed
>a total of 0 processes (but didn't give an error). Lack of recompilation
>of ps and friends probably explains their sick state with 0.98 pl6.

ps -U

ought to do (assuming you have a /usr/src/linux/tools/system file)

although I did notice in 98p6 that ps no longer shows the command line
options of the processes - they're all inside brackets...

Any fixes ?

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