FreeBSD Jails & Perl: Reading /proc ...

[Kirk Strauser]

On Friday 24 December 2004 08:17, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> I'm trying to read /proc/*/status, specifically to find what processes
> belong to what jail ... but, doing 'direct views' on it tends to generate
> errors since processes "come-n-go" ...

I had the same problem when I was writing JailAdmin (sysutils/jailadmin), 
and eventually solved it by using jexec to execute ps from within a jail.  
This is actually a lot faster than opening and reading a lot of files from 
within /proc, *and* allows you to run a system without a mounted proc 
filesystem should you want to do so.
-- 
Kirk Strauser
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