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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: finding the u structure in /dev/mem on SYSV (how ?)
Message-ID: <12266@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 20 Aug 88 16:00:58 GMT
References: <16837@adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <16837@adm.ARPA> by rbj@nav.icst.nbs.gov (Root Boy Jim):
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| 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? 
+---------------

From the ps(1) manual:

"BUGS
"     Things can change while _ps_ is running; the picture it gives is only
"     a close approximation to reality."

I guess it doesn't.

++Brandon
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