Subject: Re: Bugreport new SCSI kernel
To: Anders Hogrelius SdU <elt96ahs@mds.mdh.se>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/24/1999 22:48:08
> 
> Hello everyone!
> Have found another bug in the new kernel. This is what happens
> when i run ps.
> 
> root@calvin:~> ps -x
> ps: proc size mismatch (11696 total, 676 chunks).
> Warning:  /proc does not provide valid data for all fields.
>   PID TT  STAT      TIME COMMAND
>     0 ??  ?W<    0:00.00 (swapper)
>     1 ??  ?W<    0:00.00 (init)
>
It's not a bug, it's a feature :-) You must use a userland compiled
for 1.4L to be able to get anything out of the kernel.
Reading things out of /proc is a fallback just to get _something_ out
of the kernel instead of ps just puking on your screen.

-- Ragge