Subject: Re: sysinfo(2)
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/08/2000 10:50:56
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>>>>> "Aidan" == Aidan Cully <aidan@kublai.com> writes:
Aidan> elemcount/index, of course, allows for the possibility of the kernel
Aidan> structures changing from underneath the caller's nose between
Aidan> invocations of sysinfo()... Now that I've started thinking about
As far as I understand, /dev/kmem groveling ps has to cope with this
problem already... In other words, you may be fixing new problems as
well. That's fine, just realize that you are doing it.
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