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To: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net>
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        Gary Jennejohn <Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de>
Subject: Re: Swapinfo gone ? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 24 Sep 1996 22:53:45 PDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 23:29:52 -0700
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>
>>I see swapinfo has gone from src/
>>& in the cvs tree I see stuff only in Attic/
>
>>Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de tells me
>>> ... you get the same functionality > with 'pstat -s'. Or top, of course.
>
>>I guess it's been abandoned ? 
>
>I think a more accurate term would be "obsoleted".
>
>[...]
>>If swapinfo is dead, could we perhaps create a new one line swapinfo.1
>>& store it pstat, that refers us to pstat, or have the makefile create 
>>a sym link, or provide some kind of life belt ?
>
>FYI, swapinfo has been gone from NetBSD for a long time.  Well over a
>year, if I remember correctly.  It wasn't really a big deal when it
>went, either.  Pstat is a standard BSD-ism; swapinfo is not.  I'm not
>sure what all the hoopla is about.

   pstat was modified by me to understand when it is called as "swapinfo", and
peforms the intended function for backward compatiblity. Thus, "swapinfo" in
FreeBSD is installed as a symlink to pstat.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project