Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 01:57:56 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, dwmalone@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/27215: when cat'ing /compat/linux/proc/stat, we have negative numbers Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105100153420.19302-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20010509174435.G645@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
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On Wed, 9 May 2001, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 12:40:22AM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > > On 9 May 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > Argh. What are the chances of making cp_time an array of uint64_ts > > > instead of longs? Would that break any existing binary interfaces? > > > > Mainly the "interface" given by the type of cp_time. systat and vmstat, > > etc., depend on it being an array of longs. systat uses a sysctl to > > read the array, but this doesn't help much because it assumes that the > > array elements have the same types as in the kernel. > > So if kernel and userland are updated in sync, there would be no problem? > Or are there any third-party tools that might use cp_time? There are many X utilities like vmstat. ports/sysutils alone has xcpustate, xosview, xperfmon, xperfmon3, xsysinfo and xsysstats :-]. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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