Kernel nlist entries

[Daniel Baldoni]

I'm trying to develop a process killer that works similar to /etc/killall
on the SGI machines.  But, I'm having trouble trying to access some of the
kernel symbols on our RS/6000.

Basically, I'd like to know the name of the entity which specifies the 
number of processes which are currently running.  Under BSD machines, it's
typically called nproc.  The closest I could find (just using an 'nm /unix')
was max_proc but the value of this beast (after reading /dev/kmem) didn't
seem quite right (about -4,500,000).

If anybody out there has played on an RS/6000 at this level, please let me
know.


Oh, by the way, we're running AIX 3.1.

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