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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:08:46 +0000 (GMT)
From: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@ragingbull.com>
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Subject: system call for process information?
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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
task[], task_struct, etc. about?

Thanks
Guennadi
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Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, U.K.
email: G.Liakhovetski@sheffield.ac.uk


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