[plug] Finding the UID of a process

[Mike Holland]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Christian wrote:

> I've tried strace'ing ps and found that it gets all this info out of
> /proc but obviously systems that don't have /proc must do it some other
> way.

IIRC, old versions of ps would read the kernel memory. You can imagine
why /proc is considered an improvement. I've never seen a system call for
it.

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Mike Holland  <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>
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