On 21-03-2008 12:07:24 +0000, Roy Marples wrote: > On Friday 21 March 2008 10:37:11 Fabian Groffen wrote: > > Assuming you would use libkvm, on Darwin this means as unprivileged user > > (not using suid) you can't see any processes at all. > > That's different from FreeBSD and NetBSD then.
Indeed. And I just found out that Leopard (10.5) dropped the entire kvm which wasn't working to funky anyway. I just made some implementation of walking through all running processes for portage-utils' `qlop -c` using sysctl calls -- the way to do it on Darwin, and that works even as normal unprivileged user, so I guess we can just use that. > > Is there a way to just have some fallback method which is less > > functional, but just uses some pid file with a lock or something? > > Not all services use pidfiles. Also, some services re-fork and re-write their > pidfiles and I'm not sure the lock would carry across in that instance. I was thinking of a wrapping process, but I only later realised that this isn't working since many/most daemons fork into the background, so you loose the control over it anyway. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
