From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 29 14:48:23 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EB41FD8 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:48:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-lists@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (be-well.ilk.org [23.30.133.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB038988 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:48:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.41]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5238B33C60; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:48:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id E9CB239829; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:48:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Rod Person Subject: Re: Help porting Linux app - getting Free Memory and Real Memory References: <5156316F.9050202@rodperson.com> <20130329032845.GG81066@server.rulingia.com> <51559228.5020302@rodperson.com> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 10:48:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: <51559228.5020302@rodperson.com> (Rod Person's message of "Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:07:52 -0400") Message-ID: <44d2ui2rf4.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 14:48:23 -0000 Rod Person writes: > man 3 sysctl, list them as integer that is why I did this. "unsigned long" *is* an integer, but it's a different kind of integer than an "int." This is an important distinction in the C language.