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Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 10:01:21 +0100
From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@idb.hist.no>
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To: Gregory Maxwell <greg@linuxpower.cx>
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Gregory Maxwell wrote:

> 
> There are no threads in Linux.
> All tasks are processes.
> Processes can share any or none of a vast set of resources.
> 
Is there a way a user program can find out what resources 
are shared among which processes? 

That would allow enhancing ps, top, etc to
report memory usage correctly.

Helge Hafting
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