From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) Subject: Re: Missing stuff: pstat, tset, NIS? Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:42:16 GMT
Scott S. Bertilson (scott@geom.umn.edu) wrote:
: In article <SCT.93Jan18162524@barley.dcs.ed.ac.uk> sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Stephen Tweedie) writes:
: >In article <lma.727207214@dayton.Stanford.EDU>, lma@dayton.Stanford.EDU (Larry Augustin) writes:
: >
: >Pstat? Nope. Anyway, the kernel structures have been changing too
: >rapidly to make such a beast easy to maintain...
:
: Don't know where it is at in terms of revisions, but there was
: a very interesting program posted on the net several years ago
: which was called "nlist". It provided a simple scripting language
: which made it possible to print anything that could be found in
: the kernel namelist with some formatting and even computation
: involving previously retrieved values. I haven't done much with
: it lately, but it strikes me that maybe I should dig it up and
: see if it would port to Linux relatively easily.
: Scott
The current idea appears to be to impliment examination of any kernel
data structures by using the /proc filesystem.
The format of this is likely to be more stable (once all the bits have
been put in) than diging arround in /dev/kmen
i.e. no recompiling tools/rebuilding databases whenever the kernel is changed!