From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 1 08:59:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA22168 for current-outgoing; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 08:59:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fgate.flevel.co.uk (root@fgate.flevel.co.uk [194.6.101.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA22160 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 08:59:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dev@localhost) by fgate.flevel.co.uk (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA12643; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 17:01:38 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 17:01:37 +0100 (BST) From: Developer To: Garrett Wollman cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Just a note that libkvm/ps/etc need to be recompiled In-Reply-To: <9608011407.AA09584@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > I wonder if it might be an idea to have a kernel call that gets the proc > > structure size, that way libkvm/ps/w etc wouldn`t have to be re-compiled > > when the structure changed? > > The actual size of the structure makes little difference, it's where > the fields are placed in it that is of importance. (You could always > make it self-encoding for size...) Well, that is true - but still at the moment adding extra fields causes you to have to re-compile ps/w/libkvm etc... even if they are not required externally. I actually went through this one myself, Ive added the ability to filter ranges of IP addresses and certian ports on different users. Regards, Trefor S.