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Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:13:38 -0400
From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] equivalent of fstat | grep $portnumber ?
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actually, seriously, i'd like a verison of ps in rc.
for the minimal boot fs on the compute nodes i have things like
fn cat {
	sed '' $*
}
where's fn ps?

--jim

p.s. oh yeah, the only programmes you can use are rc, sed and echo.


On Tue Jun 19 12:58:25 EDT 2007, mirtchovski@gmail.com wrote:
> > But, assuming it's useful, why write it in C when you may as well write
> > it in rc?
>
> why is ps written in C when it may as well be written in rc?