Subject: Re: ps problems
To: xiamin <ingerrn@cris.com>
From: Paul Goyette <paul@pgoyette.bdt.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/12/1997 17:24:56
All the problems I';ve seen show up in /bin, but I can't promise.
Basically anything that links with libkvm is a likely problem.

On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, xiamin wrote:

> guess what sucks: i dont have enough space for all these binaries...im 
> gonna try to do the kernel with the madhatter mods and /bin tonite....are 
> all the ones that are affected by this in /bin by any chance? 
> pleasepleaseplease say yes ;)
> -xiamin wallows in lack-of-space-misery
> 
> On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Paul Goyette wrote:
> 
> > Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 17:07:31 -0800 (PST)
> > From: Paul Goyette <paul@pgoyette.bdt.com>
> > To: xiamin <ingerrn@cris.com>
> > Subject: Re: ps problems
> > 
> > On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, xiamin wrote:
> > 
> > > lemme guess, the answer to this will be get kernel sources and bin 
> > > sources from the same day, apply the madhatter patch, and writhe in agony 
> > > as it takes hours to ftp all of this...
> > > -xiamin is an unhappy camper
> > 
> > Sorry, but for pretty much anything that grovels through kernel memory
> > (such as ps, netstat, and a few others) that's really your only option.
> > If the user-land binaries and /usr/lib/libkvm aren't built from the same
> > headers as the kernel, you'll have all sorts of trouble.  The same kind of
> > problem is what results in strange messages during startup from savecore;
> > mine often claims that it can't find some strange ,major>/<minor> device. 
> > 
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