On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 19:28:11 -0400, Brandon Niemczyk <bniemczyk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm also a newbie, but It looks to me like it's just finding the init > process and then printing some info about it. Is this actually in the > kernel or is it part of a tutorial of sorts? It's an Intel specific module which displays some statistics as you mentioned above. By accessing the thread_struct in this way it's assuming this running on an x86 box. It's also possibly badly written since it doesn't need to locate the init_task in this fashion. Jon. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
