re: CVS commit: [netbsd-1-5] src/sys/kern

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

   On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 10:06:51AM +0100, David Laight wrote:
   > Why is this change being made?
   > 
   > There has always been a difference between what pfind() will look for,
   > and what the code is sysctl_proc() will look for.
   > So this change is changing the processes on which it is valid to do
   > a SYSCTL_PROC.
   > 
   > In particular it makes sysclt_proc fail on zombies and neo-zombies.
   
   I don't think you want to do a sysclt_proc() on zombies.
   There are probably issues with the validity of the data being returned.


i assume that david is saying that eg now zombies won't be shown in ps(1).


.mrg.