stable = prerelease?

[Lowell Gilbert]

<chael at southgate.ph.inter.net> writes:

> I have just cvsup-ed my 4.8-RELEASE using the stable-supfile. After
> recompiling, to my surprise, it is now a 4.9-PRERELEASE. Is that safe?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#RELEASE-CANDIDATE

> A colleague told me he's been having troubles with it specifically the
> ps and top commands...even after recompiling his kernel.

Probably:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#NLIST-FAILED