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From: Torbjorn Kristoffersen (sgtdigiweb.no)
Date: Sun May 19 2002 - 21:29:37 CDT

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    On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 08:40:38PM +0200, 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
    >
    > I think it may be seen as bug. What do You think?
    >

    This is a known problem, see Problem Report kern/30608 at
    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/30608
    This issue is fixed in Current, but not in FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE, etc.

    By the way, I was thinking of the best way to view all the "hidden" processes at
    the same time. Something similar to ''for i in $(jot 99999); do ps -u$i....''
    is extremely slow and sometimes hangs my system.

    Included is therefore a patch for ps.c in /usr/src/bin/ps to view all the
    "hidden" processes (just a braindead hack, really..). Any normal user can
    compile his own hacked 'ps'.

    You could always traverse /proc instead, but cmdline and status give too little
    info. 

    -- 
Torbjorn Kristoffersen <sgtdigiweb.no>

    "Real programmers don't comment their code.  It was hard to write, it
should be hard to understand."