"Garrett D'Amore" wrote:

> There are those above that are not necessarily grovelers as well.  I.e.
> some of them may fall back to groveling with sysctl fails.

grovellers that use sysctl don't "fall back" if the sysctl fails, they
just error out.

> Its surprising to me that pkill and w are in that list.

pkill and w want to know process info.

Simon.
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