Re: [Scheme-reports] command-line

[Emmanuel Medernach <emmanuel.medernach@x>]

2012/4/8 Aleksej Saushev <asau@x>

Emmanuel Medernach <emmanuel.medernach@x> writes:
>
>  Is the unreliability of /proc/self/cmdline really a problem ?

Not at all. :)

lithium$ ls /proc
lithium$

:) Well of course it depends if your Unix flavor implements '/proc/'.  On mine it does and "ps" uses it.

 

> AFAK, "ps" uses /proc/<pid>/cmdline to access the command line
> arguments of processes.

No, you're wrong, it uses libkvm.

Interesting, thanks. So it means on systems lacking '/proc' you have different ways to obtain arguments other than from "main".

--
Emmanuel


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