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On 21-03-2008 12:07:24 +0000, Roy Marples wrote: |
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> On Friday 21 March 2008 10:37:11 Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> > Assuming you would use libkvm, on Darwin this means as unprivileged user |
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> > (not using suid) you can't see any processes at all. |
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> That's different from FreeBSD and NetBSD then. |
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Indeed. And I just found out that Leopard (10.5) dropped the entire kvm |
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which wasn't working to funky anyway. I just made some implementation |
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of walking through all running processes for portage-utils' `qlop -c` |
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using sysctl calls -- the way to do it on Darwin, and that works even as |
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normal unprivileged user, so I guess we can just use that. |
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> > Is there a way to just have some fallback method which is less |
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> > functional, but just uses some pid file with a lock or something? |
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> Not all services use pidfiles. Also, some services re-fork and re-write their |
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> pidfiles and I'm not sure the lock would carry across in that instance. |
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I was thinking of a wrapping process, but I only later realised that |
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this isn't working since many/most daemons fork into the background, so |
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you loose the control over it anyway. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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