Re: Linux style /proc filesystem translator

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 08:40:18PM -0800, James Morrison wrote:
>  Once reason I was able to keep my hurd box up for 7 weeks was that I used
> neal's proc filesystem which continued to work even after I couldn't use ps 
> -a.
> I don't know why I couldn't use ps -a, but I couldn't.

It probably was just hanging while blocking on sending a message to one
of the task's message port.  You can avoid that with -M or so (please
check yourself), at the cost of reduced information.  This can happen if
one of the tasks is stuck.  I think ps -A -F hurd is also giving you
only information retrievable without the task's help.

Thanks,
Marcus