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> Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 12:11:11 +0200
> From: "Roland Winkler" <Roland.Winkler@physik.uni-erlangen.de>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> (I interpret your email such that you would consider it worth the
> effort to implement this on the C level.)

Yes, that's what I meant.

> My problem is just that this goes way beyond my skills.

Well, maybe at least consider refactoring the current Lisp code so
that the code which relies on `ps' is limited to a few functions with
well-defined interfaces.  Then someone else could reimplement them in
a portable fashion.

Thanks.