On Friday 21 March 2008 10:37:11 Fabian Groffen wrote: > Assuming you would use libkvm, on Darwin this means as unprivileged user > (not using suid) you can't see any processes at all.
That's different from FreeBSD and NetBSD then. > > > This isn't really an easy answer, as we could have installed OpenRC in a > > prefix where this wouldn't apply, but we don't know that either. > > > > Ideas anyone? > > Is there a way to just have some fallback method which is less > functional, but just uses some pid file with a lock or something? Not all services use pidfiles. Also, some services re-fork and re-write their pidfiles and I'm not sure the lock would carry across in that instance. Thanks Roy -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list