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- From: ciemo@bananapc.csd.sgi.com (Dave Ciemiewicz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.bugs
- Subject: Re: PIOCPSINFO (proc) always EINVAL
- Keywords: PIOCPSINFO proc debug
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.230705.19016@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 23:07:05 GMT
- References: <1993Jan6.181444.26115@pixar.com>
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- In article <1993Jan6.181444.26115@pixar.com>, brighton@pixar.com (Bill Carson) writes:
- |> Has anyone had any luck with the PIOCPSINFO ioctl?
- |> According to the 4.0.5 proc(4) man page:
- |>
- |> > void *p;
- |> > retval = ioctl(fildes, code, p);
- |> >
- |> > The argument p is a generic pointer whose type depends on the specific
- |> > ioctl code. Where not specifically mentioned below, its value should be
- |> > zero. <sys/procfs.h> contains definitions of ioctl codes and data
- |> > structures used by the operations.
- |> > ...
- |> > PIOCPSINFO
- |> > This returns miscellaneous process information such as that reported by
- |> > ps(1). p is a pointer to a prpsinfo structure containing at least the
- |> > following fields:
- |> >
-
- Unfortunately, the PIOCPSINFO ioctl is currently unimplemented, thus the
- EINVAL error. This will be remedied in the next major operating system
- release but there are currently no plans to have it implemented as part
- of the 4.0.5 series.
-