On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 08:51:25PM +0000, Robert N. M. Watson wrote: > > On 17 Mar 2012, at 19:30, Mikolaj Golub wrote: > > > Currently we can check and change binary osreldate of another process via > > procfs(5). > > > > Kostik suggested to add a new sysctl for the same purpose and also extend > > procstat to show osrel. > > > > Here are patches I am going to commit if there are no objections or > > suggestions. > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~trociny/kern_proc_osrel.1.patch > > http://people.freebsd.org/~trociny/procstat.osrel.1.patch > > > > I set the same permissions as for procfs(5) osrel -- so only user can read > > it, > > but may be this is too restrictive and p_cansee on read would be ok? > > > > I added osrel output to procstat -b option: > > > > kopusha:~% procstat -b 2975 > > PID COMM OSREL PATH > > 2975 emacs 1000001 /usr/local/bin/emacs-23.3 > > > > Would this be ok or someone see a better way? > > > Support for writing the field seems to violate the synchronisation protocol > defined for p_osrel in proc.h. In the new world order, is this simply a > documentation bug, or is it also a software bug? >
This is a documentation bug, I failed to update the field description when added procfs support.
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