Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:14:24 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@mahoroba.org> Cc: nsayer@freebsd.org, nsayer@sftw.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysctl interface for apm? Message-ID: <200007171914.NAA63275@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jul 2000 03:35:14 %2B0900." <20000718.033514.59474907.ume@mahoroba.org> References: <20000718.033514.59474907.ume@mahoroba.org> <1884.963737703@critter.freebsd.dk> <200007171753.LAA62543@harmony.village.org> <39734D36.5FC7DDA@sftw.com>
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In message <20000718.033514.59474907.ume@mahoroba.org> Hajimu UMEMOTO writes: : 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. Don't worry, he's not going to change this feature. I use it and will fix it back if someone "breaks" it.. : 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. Yes. The right answer isn't to kludge this through a sysctl, but instead it is to fix apm to that it is safe to make it world read only. Is there a way inside a ioctl to see if you have something open for write access? Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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