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From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole)
Subject: [TUHS] single user mode in v5 & v6
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 15:54:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2PR_9zg92n4E3qFDdvesc8rcpiaCcUAO4Ecn=7nUv1Okg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150109183845.05AEB18C0CE@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:

>
> Not just the command field!
>
​right...
​


>
> The real problem was that all the parameters (e.g. NPROC) were not stored
> in
> the kernel anywhere, so if you wanted to have one copy of the 'ps' binary
> which would work on two different machines (but which were running the same
> version of the kernel)... rotsa ruck.
>
​Yup, I remember that ...​





>
>
>
> I've hacked my copy of 'ps' to grovel around in the system's symbol table,
> and print 'wchan' symbolically.

​right - that look pretty much what it looked like on our systems.  Great
minds run on the same channel.

Clem​
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-09 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-09 18:38 Noel Chiappa
2015-01-09 20:54 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2015-01-09 20:57   ` Ronald Natalie
2015-01-09 21:18     ` Clem Cole
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2015-01-09 18:06 Noel Chiappa
2015-01-09 18:59 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-01-09  6:18 Noel Chiappa
2015-01-09 14:23 ` Ronald Natalie
2015-01-09 14:36   ` Clem Cole
2015-01-09 14:36 ` Clem Cole
2015-01-09 14:44   ` Ronald Natalie
2015-01-09 16:52     ` Clem cole
2015-01-09  4:59 Mark Longridge

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