Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Nov 2002 00:59:45 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: ps performance sucks (was Re: dcache_rcu [performance results]) |
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On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > I do dislike /dev/ps mightily. > > Well it can't be any worse than the current crap. At least it'd > stand a chance in hell of scaling a little bit. So I took a very > quick look ... what syscalls are you reduced to per pid, one ioctl > and one read?
Oh, yes it can. Easily. * device is not network-transparent - even in principle * restricting data access would be harder - welcome to suid or sgid country * real killer: you think Albert would fail to produce equally crappy code and equally crappy behaviour? Yeah, right.
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