On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> > I need to collect some info on processes. One way is to read /proc
> > tree. But isn't there a system call (ioctl) for this? And what are those
> Occam's Razor. Why invent new syscall when read() works?
read() doesn't really work for this purpose, it blocks way too many
times to be very annoying. When finally data arrives it's useless.
Szaka
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