Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 22:13:29 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami) Cc: jmz@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, rich@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree86 contrib Message-ID: <199611082113.WAA06830@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199611080749.XAA09567@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> from Satoshi Asami at "Nov 7, 96 11:49:02 pm"
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As Satoshi Asami wrote: > P.S. Rich, please look at the enclosed patch -- I'm not sure what's > reversed here, but AFAIK we still have kmem only readable by group > kmem. I took the FreeBSD part completely out in this patch, if that's > inappropriate please let me know. I'm not Rich... anyway, this already came up in the XFree86 beta group. It's definately _not_ a kmem access problem, but rather that xload is apparently built using the wrong options. It's not supposed to access /dev/kmem, but should use getloadavg(3) instead (which in turn uses sysctl(3)). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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