In message <199511071701.MAA00282@jekyll.piermont.com>, "Perry E. Metzger" writes: >Doesn't sysctl lock the kernel data structures to allow you to avoid >such things? If so, a sysctl based ps would be a win... Yeah, let's have fork() block on `ps'. :) -- Jason Downs downsj@teeny.org --> teeny.org: Free Software for a Free Internet <--