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

Lawrence V. Cipriani lvc at cbnews.ATT.COM
Thu Aug 18 04:51:08 AEST 1988


In article <16837 at adm.ARPA> rbj at nav.icst.nbs.gov (Root Boy Jim) writes:
>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? 
>	(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell	<rbj at icst-cmr.arpa>
	(and his 6 line .signature :-)

Some programs, set their nice value very high (or is that very low?)
to help ensure that things don't change, ie get swapped out or whatever.
Still no guarantee, but it seems to work usually.

-- 
Larry Cipriani, AT&T Network Systems, Columbus OH, (614) 860-4999



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