Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 22:53:45 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org, Gary Jennejohn <Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de> Subject: Re: Swapinfo gone ? Message-ID: <199609250553.WAA25271@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 24 Sep 96 21:42:26 %2B0200. <199609241942.VAA23185@vector.jhs.no_domain>
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>I see swapinfo has gone from src/
>& in the cvs tree I see stuff only in Attic/
>Gary.Jennejohn@munich.netsurf.de tells me
>> ... you get the same functionality > with 'pstat -s'. Or top, of course.
>I guess it's been abandoned ?
I think a more accurate term would be "obsoleted".
[...]
>If swapinfo is dead, could we perhaps create a new one line swapinfo.1
>& store it pstat, that refers us to pstat, or have the makefile create
>a sym link, or provide some kind of life belt ?
FYI, swapinfo has been gone from NetBSD for a long time. Well over a
year, if I remember correctly. It wasn't really a big deal when it
went, either. Pstat is a standard BSD-ism; swapinfo is not. I'm not
sure what all the hoopla is about.
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