Subject: Re: The new rc.d stuff...
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@most.weird.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/18/2000 12:46:22
[ On Sunday, March 19, 2000 at 04:22:34 (+1100), Robert Elz wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: The new rc.d stuff... 
>
> isn't used instead.  Not only does the 'c' flag eliminate the grep
> much more effeciently than "grep -v grep" does, but it also finds
> the processes, even if they've scribbled on their argv[0].

and 'ps -axc' is a *lot* faster than plain 'ps -ax' on most systems too!

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