finding the u structure in /dev/mem on SYSV (how ?)

Brandon S. Allbery allbery at ncoast.UUCP
Sun Aug 21 02:00:58 AEST 1988


As quoted from <16837 at adm.ARPA> by rbj at nav.icst.nbs.gov (Root Boy Jim):
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| Just a side issue, but what if things change during your poking around in
| /dev/{kmem,swap}? How do ps-like programs deal with such things? 
+---------------

>From the ps(1) manual:

"BUGS
"     Things can change while _ps_ is running; the picture it gives is only
"     a close approximation to reality."

I guess it doesn't.

++Brandon
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