Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 02:03:19 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: 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.4.21.0105100158040.19302-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpr8xyh8z4.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 9 May 2001, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes: > > 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. > > How about hacking systat to check the size of the returned data, and > use longs if it's only 20 bytes instead of 40? That'll allow the new > systat to run on old kernels, though it won't help an old userland > running on a new kernel - but heck, this is -CURRENT. The problem is more with ports. I guess ports need this and systat is a good place to prototype it. It's also another incentive to convert vmstat to use the sysctl. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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