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- From: philip@cel.cummins.com (Philip D. Pokorny)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
- Subject: Re: /sys/node_data/proc_dir
- Message-ID: <9208201538.AA02394@cel.cummins.com>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 15:38:55 GMT
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- Frederick G. M. Roeber of CERN asks:
- > For awhile now (at least since 10.3) I've seen the suggestively named
- I've seen it as far back as SR9.2 or SR9.7
-
- > /sys/node_data/proc_dir, which has entries that seem to reflect the
- > named processes on the node. Can anyone give more info about this?
- If you enter the 'pst -uid' command you will see that every
- process has a UID associated with it. If you list the proc_dir
- directory with the -u switch you should notice that the UID of
- the process and the UID of the file are the same for the named
- processes.
-
- > I would have hoped that the entries were some sort of "process" type,
- > which would give plan-9 style process access, but unfortunately there
- > doesn't seem to be actual filesystem objects associated with the names.
- No... I suspect that the names are side-effects of the process
- of creating a UID for the process. It was an easy place to put
- the name of the process as well... It would be nice if they
- were file-system objects that could be manipulated (ala plan-9)
- but even at SR9 there weren't any file system objects associated
- with the UID.
-
- Sincerely,
- Philip D. Pokorny
- philip@cel.cummins.com
- :)
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