From: kf8nh@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery) Subject: Re: [FIX] PS FIX FOR 99p2 !!! Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 21:16:48 EST
andrewc@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew J. Cosgriff !) writes:
> , as it saves LOTS of hassle every time you upgrade your kernel.
Not to mention being able to quick&dirty it by cat'ing files in /proc :-)
(see the "free" program in the /proc-based ps distribution)
> >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
>
> Well, you can just mount /proc onto /proc
I spent half the day today trying to find the kernel definition for
/dev/proc before finally looking for the mount() syscall and discovering
that some filesystem types (like /proc) ignore the device argument :-)
++Brandon
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