Should ps -p list threads?

[Scott Long]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Julian Elischer wrote:
> >
> > The origianlpatch had _H show threads and normal ps did not..
> > I don't know why this is as it is...
>
> Because it didn't take into account other 'ps' options.  Enabling
> or disabling thread info should be an option for all KERN_PROC_foo,
> not a separate option.  If I were to change it, I would add
>
> 	#define	KERN_PROC_THREADS	0x10000
>
> to <sys/sysctl.h>.  Then allow:
>
> 	mib[0] = CTL_KERN;
> 	mib[1] = KERN_PROC;
> 	mib[2] = KERN_PROC_UID | KERN_PROC_THREADS;
> 	mib[3] = pid;
>
> ...
>

Yeah, it's probably cleaner that way.  Still, you'll have to deal with
KERN_PROC_PROC vs. KERN_PROC_ALL.  Maybe just remove both and have
KERN_PROC_THREAD be a modifier for KERN_PROC_PID.  Are you
willing to do the kernel work for this too?

Scott