Should ps -p list threads?

[Scott Long]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Craig Rodrigues wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 11:16:57AM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > > But 'ps' without -H seems to display KSEs where it shouldn't.
> >
> > I looked in the source code of ps,
> > specifically in src/bin/ps/ps.c
>
> [ ... ]
> >
> > So, I am not sure if this is a bug in kvm_getprocs() or in ps.c,
> > but the result is that if you type ps or ps -H, they
> > both display KSEs.  Probably just typing ps should not display
> > them.
> >
> > Any idea what the problem is?
>
> We currently lack a sysctl interface to get finer-grained
> process info.  I think KERN_PROC_THREADS (or whatever) should
> be added as a flag to the sysctl, so that you can 'or' it
> in to 'op' of kvm_getprocs().  You would need some kernel
> changes to support it too.  I can look at it when I get
> a chance.
>

Give me a chance to look at this first.  The whole idea of KERN_PROC_ALL
vs KERN_PROC_PROC was to express this.  If it's broken, then give me a
day or two to find out why.

Scott