Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 03:35:14 +0900 (JST) From: Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@mahoroba.org> To: nsayer@freebsd.org, nsayer@sftw.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, imp@village.org Subject: Re: sysctl interface for apm? Message-ID: <20000718.033514.59474907.ume@mahoroba.org> In-Reply-To: <39734D36.5FC7DDA@sftw.com> References: <1884.963737703@critter.freebsd.dk> <200007171753.LAA62543@harmony.village.org> <39734D36.5FC7DDA@sftw.com>
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>>>>> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:15:18 -0700 >>>>> Nick Sayer <nsayer@sftw.com> said: nsayer> The "why bother" is easy -- one should not have to belong to group nsayer> operator to determine the current battery state. Too many things nsayer> already have to be sgid (at least) without making this another reason. I love this feature. nsayer> I took a middle ground. I have two ints, machdep.apm_battlevel nsayer> and machdep.apm_powerstate. The power state number is nsayer> -1 to 5 for unknown, critical, low, medium, high (which four imply nsayer> battery power), AC or charging (which two imply AC power). Then, I cannot switch to use sysctl. Actually, GKrellM requires ai_batt_stat, ai_acline, ai_batt_life and ai_batt_time members of struct apm_info. -- Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan ume@mahoroba.org ume@bisd.hitachi.co.jp ume@FreeBSD.org http://www.imasy.org/~ume/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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