Put down a kernel driver that helps you out with this. Your Supervisor will be highly impressed ;-) On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 10:34 +0530, Prasad Joshi wrote: > Hi, > > pidof and pstree both uses /proc. But, there has to be some other way > of doing the same thing, as it is the assignment given to us. > Assignment explicitly mentions to not to use /proc file system and ps, > pstree, or pidof commands. > > There has to be some way of doing it. I will try to find it out and > will post the result here, if I am able to find out. > > Thanks a lot for taking your time to reply the questions. > > Thanks and regards, > Prasad. > > On 3/12/07, Erik Mouw <mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post > Q: Were do I find info about this thing called top-posting? > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally > read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > > A: No. > Q: Should I leave quotations after my reply? > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 10:08:33AM -0700, santosh dwivedi > wrote: > > what u think about pidof command ? > > Strace it and you will see it uses /proc. > > > Erik > > - -- > They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll > eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in > alt.sysadmin.recovery > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFF9Y9S/PlVHJtIto0RAk0JAJ9VQHxcRfkIodWXTmxz0qsZIn2rzwCfTina > aBt8N8enkbUSK5pffavUsz0= > =0FMP > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
