Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!att!cbnews!lvc From: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: finding the u structure in /dev/mem on SYSV (how ?) Message-ID: <885@cbnews.ATT.COM> Date: 17 Aug 88 18:51:08 GMT References: <16837@adm.ARPA> Reply-To: lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 12 In article <16837@adm.ARPA> rbj@nav.icst.nbs.gov (Root Boy Jim) writes: >Just a side issue, but what if things change during your poking around in >/dev/{kmem,swap}? How do ps-like programs deal with such things? > (Root Boy) Jim Cottrell(and his 6 line .signature :-) Some programs, set their nice value very high (or is that very low?) to help ensure that things don't change, ie get swapped out or whatever. Still no guarantee, but it seems to work usually. -- Larry Cipriani, AT&T Network Systems, Columbus OH, (614) 860-4999