Re: problem on 4.1-RC (4.0-stable)

[Chris Costello]

On Thursday, July 20, 2000, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
> Yep, you were right. /dev/null was a plain file. Strange

   Just guessing here--ps probably uses /dev/null for all the
files passed to kvm_open(3).  I imagine it uses kvm_getprocs for
its process listing, which is implemented using sysctl.

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