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Re: ps under FreeBSD


From: "Andrew Turner" <zombie () i4free co nz>
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 17:56:34 +1200

On 18 May 2002 at 18:57, Jakub Filonik wrote:

Hi,
I was playing with ps on FreeBSD with kern.ps_showallprocs=0 and I was
surprised when I have seen that I may see info about running process, if I
know it's ID


kern.ps_showallprocs only disables ps showing all processes.
For example, try running "ps -ax" with kern.ps_showallprocs=0 and, as 
a user, you only get prosesses you own.

I'm havn't touched the kernel in any way this is just my 
understanding of how this works from the name and my own testing.

I think it may be seen as bug. What do You think?


No see above

Andrew Turner




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