From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 1 11: 1:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EBBD37B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:01:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F2B643E3B for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:01:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 2554BAE165; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:01:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:01:35 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Emil Mikulic , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rstat() Message-ID: <20021001180135.GT95327@elvis.mu.org> References: <001201c26871$136fc380$0100a8c0@coren> <20021001152629.GA46387@xor.obsecurity.org> <20021001162223.GA4426@haplo.brasd1.vic.optusnet.com.au> <20021001170446.GA46967@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021001170446.GA46967@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Kris Kennaway [021001 10:04] wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 02:22:24AM +1000, Emil Mikulic wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 08:26:29AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 09:03:57PM +1000, Emil Mikulic wrote: > > > > Why doesn't rstat() have a manpage or a function prototype in the > > > > /usr/include/rpcsvc/rstat.h header? > > > > > > Maybe it is supposed to be internal-use-only. > > > > IIRC, the xmeter manpage says that xmeter uses rstat() to get its stats. Also, > > Solaris has an rstat() manpage, and I wrote a program that uses the rstat() > > call which works identically under Solaris and FreeBSD, except that under > > FreeBSD I get a compiler warning about not having a prototype for the rstat() > > function. > > I'm not sure then..I've CC'ed the maintainer of the RPC stuff. Whoa.... :) I'm the RPC maintainer? Well ok, I've just checked in a fix for the prototypes being declared into -current, I'll take a shot at -stable RSN (most likely tomorrow). As far as a manpage I don't know when I'll have time for that. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message