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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 11:19:14 +1000 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] UNIX of choice these days?
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On Sat, 23 Sep 2017, Random832 wrote:

> On OSX (which does not implement procfs or kmem), ps uses sysctl. It 
> looks like FreeBSD uses something called libkvm, which certainly 
> *sounds* like it digs around /dev/kmem, but looking at the code it looks 
> like it *actually* uses sysctl for process-related purposes.

I've just been introduced to sysctl(3) -- thanks :-)

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