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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