24 Sep
2017
24 Sep
'17
3:19 a.m.
On Sat, 23 Sep 2017, Random832 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.
I've just been introduced to sysctl(3) -- thanks :-)
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