Re: system call for process information?

[Szabolcs Szakacsits]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
> > read() doesn't really work for this purpose, it blocks way too many
> > times to be very annoying. When finally data arrives it's useless.
> Huh? Take code of your non-blocking syscall. Make it ->read() for
> relevant file on /proc or wherever else you want it. See read() not
> blocking...

Sorry I should have quoted "blocks". Problem isn't with blocking but
*no* data, no information. In the end you can conclude you know
*nothing* what happend in the last t time interval - this can be second,
minutes even with an RT, mlocked, etc process when the load is around 0.

	Szaka