Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, T@W wrote:
> 
> > maybe the following was coincidental but i noticed that with the 1.4D6 test
> > kernel the /proc got totally disarranged and pissed off ps.
> 
> ps doesn't use /proc--nothing in the tree does. ps uses /var/db/kvm.db
> which is rebuilt against /netbsd on every boot. If you move the new
> kernel to /netbsd and do a full multi-user boot, ps will be fine.

actually, i believe that the latest version of 'ps' _will_ in fact use
/proc if it exists and /var/db/kvm.db or the kernel mismatches with 'ps'.

later.

colin