From: andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) Subject: Re: [FIX] PS FIX FOR 99p2 !!! Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 02:31:00 GMT
hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu (Charles Hedrick) writes:
>andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:
>>Okay, in my quest to do something useful for the Linux community, here are
>>some patches to get ps up and running with 99p2..just a header file location
>>change and an already-used variable, but, well, it's handy to have it done
>>for you, I guess...
>I'd encourage people to try the ps and free based on /proc, which is
>in BETA/procps/procps.tar.Z on tsx-11. It works fine for me without
>any recompilation under 0.99pl1, 0.99pl2, and 0.99pl2 with Tytso's new
>serial code. It's intended to do away with the need for a new version
>of ps with each release. I'd suggest that people who want to work
>with ps and friends spend your time on that code, e.g. maybe adapting
>top to use the new code.
Yeah, I second this motion ! (and third and fourth it !)
I just posted it for the benefit of those who haven't grabbed it yet
- I'd certainly recommend any newcomers to use the proc-fs - based one instead
, as it saves LOTS of hassle every time you upgrade your kernel.
>There has been some question about which device should be used in
>mounting /proc. As far as I can tell, it's irrelevant. Hlu's base
>distribution has an fstab that mounts it on /dev/proc, but his /dev
>doesn't have a /dev/proc. It still works (though you can't unmount
>it).
Well, you can just mount /proc onto /proc
ie.
mount -t proc /proc /proc
and it works fine
(it also umounts okay, unlike /dev/ram, etc)
Enjoy !
Cos !
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