Re: [BENCHMARK] nproc: netlink access to /proc information

[Roger Luethi]

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 13:25:43 -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> > The list for the nproc user could be prepared based on the bit field
> > (or simply memcpy'd), no tasklist_lock or walking linked lists required.
> > What am I missing?
> 
> The pid bitmap could be exported to userspace rather easily.

I implemented an "all processes" selector based on that. Remaining pieces
are access control and a method for dumping large amounts of data (10 -
1000 KB) to user space.

Roger
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