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Date:      Thu, 02 May 2002 07:22:46 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: deperlifying sockstat(1) 
Message-ID:  <77484.1020316966@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 May 2002 22:15:08 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0205012206440.75286-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> 

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In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0205012206440.75286-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>, Ju
lian Elischer writes:
>> In message <xzp8z73pjh6.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
>> >I'm working on a C version of sockstat(1), and to complete it I need
>> >to do nasty stuff like using libkvm and defining _KERNEL before
>> >including some headers (see fstat).  I'm starting to think that it
>> >would be easier to just make a kern.sockstat sysctl node, and make
>> >sockstat(1) a #!/bin/sh wrapper around sysctl(8).  Ideas?
>> 
>> sysctl is way better than libkvm because it provides a chance
>> for presentation.
>
>unless sockstat gets a -N -M capacity such as teh other similar programs..

The ratio of -N -M use to normal use is so low that it is no
justification for creating a setuid program for the normal case.

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