"Steven M. Bellovin" wrote:

> There are some commands that are unlikely to work -- in particular, 
> anything that tries to look at kernel data structures.  ps is certainly 
> in that category.  I have no idea about X servers.

Just a little clarification - some kernel grovellers (including ps
and top) that use sysctl(3) to get all info instead of groping around
/dev/mem should work with any newer kernel, and it's a bug if they
don't.  vmstat is a common one that does break often when used on a 
newer kernel.

Simon.
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