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On Wednesday 14 February 2007, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: |
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> If I cannot trust the tools provided by the OS for finding out whats |
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> going on-- than what can I trust -- this is intolerable! - if it is |
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> simply a situation if a non root user not being able to see root |
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> processes that is one thing, BUT if it really is a situation of the |
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> tools not giving accurate asessments, that is a whole other |
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> situation, and one that just cannot be allowed to continue (not that |
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> I can do much other than scream about it, cuz im not a programmer) |
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Calm down, the tools are not outright lying, see my other reply to |
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brullo for details. The trend the tools display is accurate though. |
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Incidentally, you do realize that every OS written in the past 20 years |
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suffers from this exact same problem, right? Linux simply doesn't try |
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and hide the fact that it is "lying" |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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