libprocstat(3): retrieve process command line args and environment

[Mikolaj Golub]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:31:43AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 23, 2013 2:25:00 am Mikolaj Golub wrote:
> > IMHO, after adding procstat_getargv and procstat_getargv, the usage of
> > kvm_getargv() and kvm_getenvv() (at least in the new code) may be
> > deprecated. As this is stated in the man page, BUGS section, "these
> > routines do not belong in the kvm interface". I suppose they are part
> > of libkvm because there was no a better place for them. procstat(1)
> > prefers direct sysctl to them (so, again, code duplication, which I am
> > going to remove adding procstat_getargv/envv).
> 
> Hmm, are you going to rewrite ps(1) to use libprocstat?  Or rather, is that a
> goal someday?  That is one current consumer of kvm_getargv/envv.  That might
> be fine if we want to make more tools use libprocstat instead of using libkvm
> directly.

I didn't have any plans for ps(1) :-) That is why I wrote about "new
code". But if you think it is good to do I might look at it one day...

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Mikolaj Golub