From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 28 13:33:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D44137B401; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:33:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E5A743E42; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:33:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [10.2.1.4] (vpn-client-4.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9SLWW01015329; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 16:32:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: libgtop port and v_tag changes From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: John Baldwin Cc: Terry Lambert , Nate Lawson , current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 28 Oct 2002 16:33:31 -0500 Message-Id: <1035840812.328.3.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-7.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, SPAM_PHRASE_01_02 version=2.41 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:27, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 28-Oct-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > > John Baldwin wrote: > >> I mean, do you know what libgtop is used for? It's used to draw > >> little applets that display load averages and other silly system > >> monitor stuff in small spaces in GUI's. It seems to work quite > >> happily w/o any inode numbers or dev_t's for non-UFS filesystems. > >> I just don't see why some little graphical applet displaying a load > >> average or disk usage or ethernet device usage needs the inode > >> number and dev_t of vnode's in the kernel. I mean, geez. > > > > To build little applets that activate a flashing red light when > > certain files are written? > > Why do you need the inode number to do that. Just kqueue on the > file itself using a regular fd, and in that case you can stat(2) > the file if you really need the i-node number. You don't need > to use libkvm to actually go read the kernel to find this info! You're probably right. But without waiting to re-architect libgtop, I think the immediate problem needs to be fixed. Shall I just commit my original patch that uses libkvm? Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message