24 Sep
2017
24 Sep
'17
6:11 a.m.
On Sat, Sep 23, 2017, at 19:04, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Sat, 23 Sep 2017, Dario Niedermann wrote:
On OSX (which does not implement procfs or kmem), ps uses sysctl. It
looks like FreeBSD uses something called libkvm, which certainly
*sounds* like it digs around /dev/kmem, but looking at the code it looks
like it *actually* uses sysctl for process-related purposes.
But does the kernel put [/proc] to good use?
Doesn't "ps" use it? Quicker than digging around /dev/kmem, surely?