From: david@ods.com (David Engel) Subject: Re: linux 0.97 pl4 and ps/free/etc on sunsite Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 22:57:56 GMT
Charles Hedrick (hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu) wrote:
: I'm suspicious of several things about ps and free. First, I don't
: understand why ps is able to get the command lines. I thought Linux
: said that it was no longer in kernel memory. I haven't changed that
Ps has to go find and read the appropriate user memory, which may even
be swapped out, to get the command lines. That's one reason why ps and
friends are almost certain to break whenever Linus changes anything in
the mm or swap code.
David
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