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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 13:27:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@ragingbull.com>
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Subject: Re: system call for process information?
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On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:

> Hello
> 
> I asked this question on kernel-newbies - no reply, hope to be luckier
> here:-)
> 
> 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?

> task[], task_struct, etc. about?

What branch? (2.0, 2.2, 2.4?)
							Cheers,
								Al

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