As of 48023bbfb8e439fd5d6a194d4562b7a6a7f13ec9, where PID, CPUID, and DISPID are numbers, PNAME is the process name, and WID is the window id, the current layout is something like this:
which allow sending control messages to the process (like start, stop, trace), sending notes (i.e. arbitrary string signals that Plan 9 replaced the BSD signals like SIGINT with), tracing any process that has had trace written to its ctl, accessing the register values of a process, and other things.
All of this (except maybe notes, which are even too cool for Linux) should be implementable on OS X.
There's also our /proc/system/, which should have more in common with sysfs and Plan 9's /dev.
As of 48023bbfb8e439fd5d6a194d4562b7a6a7f13ec9, where PID, CPUID, and DISPID are numbers, PNAME is the process name, and WID is the window id, the current layout is something like this:
We have unique things, but we're also missing lots of stuff, like from Linux
which let you access the process's environment variables and file descriptors.
There's also cooler stuff from Plan 9, like
which allow sending control messages to the process (like
start,stop,trace), sending notes (i.e. arbitrary string signals that Plan 9 replaced the BSD signals like SIGINT with), tracing any process that has hadtracewritten to itsctl, accessing the register values of a process, and other things.All of this (except maybe notes, which are even too cool for Linux) should be implementable on OS X.
There's also our
/proc/system/, which should have more in common with sysfs and Plan 9's /dev.