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RE: [MiNT] /proc



> From: owner-mint@fishpool.com [mailto:owner-mint@fishpool.com]On Behalf
> Of Martin-Eric Racine
> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 1999 5:23 PM
> To: MiNT List
> Subject: [MiNT] /proc
>
>
> A question for the real gurus:
>
> Why does /proc shows process names as truncated filenames?
>
> For example, both rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd show up as rpc.<PID>
> instead of rpc.mountd.<PID> and rpc.nfsd.<PID> and same thing for
> in.telnetd which shows up as in.<PID> instead of in.telnetd.<PID>
> as I would have expected.
>
> This also affects how 'ps' displays the process names, btw.

Only if your ps.ttp doesn't use the proper Fcntl on the process file to
retrieve the real filename...