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- From: david@ods.com (David Engel)
- Subject: Re: linux 0.97 pl4 and ps/free/etc on sunsite
- Message-ID: <1992Sep7.225756.11221@ods.com>
- Organization: Optical Data Systems, Inc.
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- References: <Sep.7.17.59.37.1992.4751@athos.rutgers.edu>
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 22:57:56 GMT
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- Charles Hedrick (hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu) wrote:
- : I'm suspicious of several things about ps and free. First, I don't
- : understand why ps is able to get the command lines. I thought Linux
- : said that it was no longer in kernel memory. I haven't changed that
-
- Ps has to go find and read the appropriate user memory, which may even
- be swapped out, to get the command lines. That's one reason why ps and
- friends are almost certain to break whenever Linus changes anything in
- the mm or swap code.
-
- David
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