From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!Michael.Young.CMU-CS-A@SRI-UNIX Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: protecting kmem because someone felt obnoxious. Article-I.D.: sri-unix.5224 Posted: Mon Feb 28 03:26:02 1983 Received: Tue Mar 1 07:15:01 1983 From: Michael Wayne YoungDate: 31 December 1982 0449-EST (Friday) I agree with yor suggestion for a 'table' call... I'd even be in favour of one that lets root processes write entries, somewhat like a POKE. [In fact, this whole idea reminds me of the TOPS-10 GETTAB and POKE calls. There youu use GETTAB to get a particular table entry, and POKE to change one (with the restriction that you specify before and after contents of a POKEd word, so you don't goof up, or nothing else POKEs in between).] I really prefer this kind of controlled (in comparison to looking up in a namelist) access to kernel structures for things like re-nicing, and various other fiddling (such as the "su" controversy discussed here long ago). Plus, it might make a 'ps'-like program almost readable (the code, that is). Access to the kernel via /dev/whatever is really a pretty silly idea the way it's used now. Michael