Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Access to kmem - System namelist - ' Message-ID: <4746@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 19:43:49 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4746 Posted: Fri Dec 7 19:43:49 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 19:43:49 EST References: <161@dido.UUCP>, <6200035@uokvax.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 12 I hate to throw cold water on the widespread cries of joy, but I hope everyone realizes that programs which "know" about the kernel tables -- however they gain access to them, /dev/kmem or whatever -- are hopelessly unportable. They may also be unreliable, due to race conditions. It is indeed a blemish that there is no safe, implementation-independent way of getting this information. But it's not impossible to devise such a thing, guys; has anyone bothered to try? Bell Labs's "/proc" is a good first step. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry