On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 08:40:38PM +0200, Jakub Filonik wrote: > Hi, > I was playing with ps on FreeBSD with kern.ps_showallprocs=0 and I was > surprised when I have seen that I may see info about running process, if I > know it's ID > > I think it may be seen as bug. What do You think? > This is a known problem, see Problem Report kern/30608 at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/30608 This issue is fixed in Current, but not in FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE, etc. By the way, I was thinking of the best way to view all the "hidden" processes at the same time. Something similar to ''for i in $(jot 99999); do ps -u$i....'' is extremely slow and sometimes hangs my system. Included is therefore a patch for ps.c in /usr/src/bin/ps to view all the "hidden" processes (just a braindead hack, really..). Any normal user can compile his own hacked 'ps'. You could always traverse /proc instead, but cmdline and status give too little info. -- Torbjorn Kristoffersen <sgtat_private> "Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand."
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