ps -e without procfs(5).

[Peter Wemm]

On Tuesday 30 November 2004 03:12 pm, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I need some testing for this patch:
>
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/ps-e.patch
>
> It allows to use 'ps -e' without procfs(5) mounted.
> I decided to disable this functionality by default, because procfs(5)
> is also disabled by default and some people may already depend on the
> fact, that environment is a secret by default.
> To see the effects, you need to increase sysctl
> kern.ps_env_cache_limit to for example 1024.

ps -e is "live" and reads the environment from the process.  It looks 
like your patch adds a once-only snapshot of the exec-time values..

I've only ever used "ps -e" to figure out what the current live values 
are, I'd be more interested in a ptrace based replacement..  

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