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Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 08:51:44 -0500 (EST)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.46: duplicate statistics being gathered 
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On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Richard B. Johnson wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Rick Lindsley wrote:
> 
> >     The <unknown quantity of> applications out there which are reading
> >     the disk info from /proc/stat need to be taught to go fishing in
> >     /name-of-the-day-fs.
> > 
> 
> There is /proc/version, which could have been used to make
> `ps` and `top` compatable over, at least previously known
> versions.
> 
> The last version of procps I have a copy of is 1.2. I don't see
> anybody opening that file anywhere. Maybe it would be a good
> idea to start.

...
munmap(0x40013000, 113429)              = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="montezuma.mastecende.com", ...}) = 0
open("/proc/uptime", O_RDONLY)          = 3
lseek(3, 0, SEEK_SET)                   = 0
..

? Or is this not what you had in mind.

	Zwane
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