EP>OS X does not have /proc nor a procfs

Well, they surely have _something_ that ps is using.

EP>You will need to write your own setuid or root run tool that EP>does the same as ps or top. I suggest grabbing the source EP>for them out of Darwin.

It'll prolly come to that, but I was hoping for some info first. Speaking of which, does anyone have a more explicit description of the comp_t format than this (from /usr/include/sys/acct.h):

* Accounting structures; these use a comp_t type which is a 3 bits base 8 * exponent, 13 bit fraction ``floating point'' number. Units are 1/AHZ * seconds.

I'm guessing that (in Perl) it's:

sub fltime { my $tmp = (@_);

my $ahz = 64; my $exp = $tmp >> 13; my $frc = $tmp & 0x1FFF;

return ($frc * (2 ** $exp)) / $ahz; }

NZ>As Eric said, there's no proc filesystem on OS X. "proc" is a Linux NZ>thing; I'm not sure about other operating systems...

FreeBSD 4.7 certainly has /proc:

-r