Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Nov 1998 20:19:33 -0000 (GMT) | From | Simon Kenyon <> | Subject | Re: linux-kernel-digest V1 #2839 |
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On 17-Nov-98 Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > It's always writeable. But ps doesn't necessarily look at the process's > memory space to get the arguments, as that is usually complex (is it > swapped?) and always slow. System V-derived Unixes store some part (usually > the first 80 characters) of the original command line in the ublock to make > ps faster, at the price of some magic required (if it's possible at all) to > change that saved command line.
thanks for the info i learnt my unix from lyons' book and haven't really updated it since :-) -- simon
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