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ps aggregates /proc info for human viewing. Why grep the formatted output rather than the source data?
by firethief 10y ago
ps aggregates /proc info for human viewing. Why grep the formatted output rather than the source data?
- PeCaN 10y agoMaybe on Linux. OpenBSD doesn't even have procfs, FreeBSD deprecated it, DragonFlyBSD doesn't mount it by default. /proc is a race condition waiting to happen, so I can't really say I recommend using that.