Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 03:37:48 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9_Lu=EDs_Faria?= <jose@di.uminho.pt> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel Message-ID: <20000221033747.N21720@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <38B1282D.7230C8BC@di.uminho.pt>; from jose@di.uminho.pt on Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 11:57:33AM %2B0000 References: <38B1282D.7230C8BC@di.uminho.pt>
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* José Luís Faria <jose@di.uminho.pt> [000221 03:25] wrote: > Hello > > I'm creating a litle update to a freebsd 3.4 kernel. > My program is for account some data: number of > packets by class, number of packets dropped by class, etc. > Now I need to pass this values to another program wich in X-Window > display this values on-line. After, I want to save this values > in a file. > > I need some docs about how I can do this. > Which are the primitives in the kernel to do this. > I use the printf to put this data in /var/log/messages. > This inappropriate, I dont want this. This is only for testing now. > > Can you help me ? Perhaps you'd like to use sysctl nodes as counters, they allow a pretty clean exporting of kernel internal variables. try "man sysctl" and looking at various other uses of sysctls in the kernel as counters. good luck, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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