site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com -- Terry On 26 Aug 2007, at 20:44, Terry Lambert wrote: $ top top: could not open /dev/kmem: no such file or directory $ Cheers, Graham. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... We took away /dev/kmem for a reason. If you want it back, you can specifically ask for it using boot-args. But it's not there by default on purpose. On Aug 26, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Graham J Lee <leeg@thaesofereode.info> wrote: But my point was that you could trust command line output a heck of a lot more than data interfaces. I more or less promise we won't intentionally break things unless the standards change or our upstream providers change things on us for no reason. That would be work. 8^). If you absolutley must ask the OS for information you should already know, then the way to do it is via our tools that know how to ask. We won't be breaking our tools for no reason. That would be work. 8^). Unless someone changes the data interfaces those tools depend on, in which case getting your tool to stay the same involves work ;-). As an invented example: This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com