Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 14:26:40 +0300 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Stanislav Sedov <stas@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r221807 - in head: lib lib/libprocstat lib/libprocstat/zfs lib/libutil sys/kern sys/sys usr.bin/fstat usr.bin/fstat/zfs usr.bin/procstat Message-ID: <20110512112640.GQ48734@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <201105121011.p4CABdkM030432@svn.freebsd.org> References: <201105121011.p4CABdkM030432@svn.freebsd.org>
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--6yI7Fv2tfqWgENHd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:11:39AM +0000, Stanislav Sedov wrote: > Author: stas > Date: Thu May 12 10:11:39 2011 > New Revision: 221807 > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/221807 >=20 > Log: > - Commit work from libprocstat project. These patches add support > for runtime file and processes information retrieval from the > running kernel via sysctl in the form of new library, libprocstat. > The library also supports KVM backend for analyzing memory crash > dumps. Both procstat(1) and fstat(1) utilities have been modified > to take advantage of the library (as the bonus point the fstat(1) > utility no longer need superuser privileges to operate), and the > procstat(1) utility is now able to display information from memory > dumps as well. > > The newly introduced fuser(1) utility also uses this library and > able to operate via sysctl and kvm backends. > > The library is by no means complete (e.g. KVM backend is missing > vnode name resolution routines, and there're no manpages for the > library itself) so I plan to improve it further. I'm commiting it > so it will get wider exposure and review. > > We won't be able to MFC this work as it relies on changes in HEAD, > which was introduced some time ago, that break kernel ABI. OTOH > we may be able to merge the library with KVM backend if we really > need it there. Could you, please, point out the mentioned ABI changes ? --6yI7Fv2tfqWgENHd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk3Lw/AACgkQC3+MBN1Mb4hpWgCfQtdL9E4s4w9H2hU9A3dsmMGR IwMAnRUWWLOglUX0mRaHRRam4h5omdey =AXhL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6yI7Fv2tfqWgENHd--
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