[TUHS] single user mode in v5 & v6

Clem Cole clemc at ccc.com
Sat Jan 10 06:54:36 AEST 2015


On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:

>
> Not just the command field!
>
​right...
​


>
> The real problem was that all the parameters (e.g. NPROC) were not stored
> in
> the kernel anywhere, so if you wanted to have one copy of the 'ps' binary
> which would work on two different machines (but which were running the same
> version of the kernel)... rotsa ruck.
>
​Yup, I remember that ...​





>
>
>
> I've hacked my copy of 'ps' to grovel around in the system's symbol table,
> and print 'wchan' symbolically.

​right - that look pretty much what it looked like on our systems.  Great
minds run on the same channel.

Clem​
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