ps -e not outputing environment in -CURRENT?

[Xin LI]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 02:15:40PM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 02, 2004 at 11:56:43AM +0800, Xin LI wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > It seems that ps -e has lost its functionality or its behavior has
> > been changed between 4-STABLE and 5-CURRENT, or I have did something
> > incorrect?
> [...]
> > Is this intentional?
> 
> This is documented, but not very well:
> 
>      The process file system (see procfs(5)) should be mounted when ps is exe-
>      cuted, otherwise not all information will be available.
> 
> As far as I'm aware, this only affects the -e option and possibly the
> displaying of argument lists too long to fit into the kernel's argument cache.
> 
> See PR 54604 for a fix from pjd@ for ps -e that has not been committed yet.

Thanks for your information!

BTW. IIRC, procfs(5) is going to be deprecated in future releases (6-CURRENT
or so?), is this going to be committed before 5-STABLE is branched?

Cheers,
-- 
Xin LI <delphij frontfree net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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