From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 16 19:14:01 2009 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27D08106567F for <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:14:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ciphwn@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f158.google.com (mail-fx0-f158.google.com [209.85.220.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD7328FC25 for <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:14:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ciphwn@gmail.com) Received: by fxm2 with SMTP id 2so3485918fxm.43 for <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:13:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=jbV8v4R+yl3w/X1pUmaFMTIqUpOfsRvTz3WhT49XB4E=; b=jxHdi8L7+ojdKiTU4DpvQgbx4va70fSQOeNuFFRtWt7uHsBni/Wz+V7GORuP53WtGC v2EFOnMdq/XvQlosUSoEMWpE3NTyHI63eOvntF2EFV7DWzJyUD0F+SmbL8hutnPv5m1N w7TcSaS2f0Out6BuZmiJIryLiYOGHyXb0vwgk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ZGc7KXRYaf/18xcRmQt15xUiO9aoBk8smrpHAy5u26Wo9SV9X/cSpGNjVhdsGuRtnq /4IGoOPLF4VkuWfNqWMS7JRRG6bDV4szkMGaB8y2k0Y+KNvCm0MgVPS50z8Hgy085XXJ DJ/+wzqakXM/qPoOxieMBi1oXJ5McJU38N29Q= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.103.182.3 with SMTP id j3mr2326462mup.113.1237230839302; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:13:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49BEA2BC.6000405@delphij.net> References: <13b997e60903160716x21881adfma588c32551c36e6f@mail.gmail.com> <21C1FF9D-4CDA-4476-9F11-3DE281279C1A@freebsd.org> <13b997e60903161141j8faaf7frd6ce9b1423b40164@mail.gmail.com> <49BEA2BC.6000405@delphij.net> Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:13:58 -0400 Message-ID: <13b997e60903161213t320252dbg56e96335e79f7eb9@mail.gmail.com> From: Cipta H <ciphwn@gmail.com> To: d@delphij.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: writing libnetstat for Summer of Code 2009 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD <freebsd-hackers.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers>, <mailto:freebsd-hackers-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-hackers-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers>, <mailto:freebsd-hackers-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:14:01 -0000 Thanks for the reply, Xin. I'm aware of something called sysctl, and if I am accepted to work on this project, my main task is to ensure all live network data will come from sysctl, but the only XML I know of is the markup language. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable can point me to the right resource? Thanks in advance. Cipta On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> wrote: > I'm not very sure but I think Rui is referring XML like the GEOM > subsystem has used (perhaps to have the kernel expose the statistics > data with XML and the userland part of the library parse and return the > result)?