In article <3467@key.COM> rburns@key.COM (Randy Burns) writes:
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>I recently installed Linux 0.96c. For the most part,
>things worked just fine. In fact, I was rather impressed with the speed of
>Linux and how compact the overall system is.  When I tried to run ps,
>I got the message that it had been compiled for an earlier version of the
>OS. Now, I plan to dig out the source for the ps program and recompile it,
>still in the future, we may need to clearly identify the version of each root disk and periodically update/recompile the root disk image.

Clever use of the word we.

rootimage-0.97 will *not* contain ps or releated utilities, because of
the problems you describe.  The unstripped kernel executable is needed
to rebuild psdatabase, and this is not made available anywhere, so it
would require a rootimage to be released for every bootimage.  This is
incredibly timeconsuming, however, for such a small gain, that it is
simply easier to not have ps on the root disk and dodge the issue.

This may change in the future, but I won't make any promises about
that.  :)

Oh, by the way, you might not need to recompile ps - try a ps U after
you have recompiled the kernel.
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