Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:54:39 -0500 (EST) | From | Ricky Beam <> | Subject | Re: What /proc should contain [was: /proc/driver/microcode] |
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On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch wrote: >Ricky Beam wrote: >> Ok, so when did the non-procfs interface for process data go away? (I'm >> assuming _years_ ago. There _were_ syscalls for it at one point.)
Correction, I'm thinking of _memory_ syscalls -- i.e. meminfo data.
>Nope, the state of the art back then was to poke around in /dev/kmem, >guided by a possibly obsolete symbol table, and blissfully ignorant of >any locking or such. > >Whenever any of the kernel-internal tables changed, ps and friends >died a horrible death or started generating strangely incorrect >information, and there was a week of confusion in linux-kernel.
Yeah, those were the days. Nothing quite like watching ps core dump or display several 1000% cpu utilization :-) (This was _before_ SMP children.)
--Ricky
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