Re: kern/51549 (Changes in NetBSD 7 kernel break all apps in PKGSRC using Network Statistics)

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/51549; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: kern/51549 (Changes in NetBSD 7 kernel break all apps in PKGSRC
 using Network Statistics)
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:46:03 +0000

 On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 11:40:01AM +0000, iradu%unix-world.org@localhost wrote:
  >  I compiled the reported apps from source using pkgsrc current,
  >  pkgsrc 2016Q3 and also older versions of pkgsrc.
  >  By the way libgtop and xosview are standard apps and nobody can
  >  change them as this, they are too complex.
 
 On the contrary, this is exactly the kind of situation that the
 patches in pkgsrc are for.
 
  >  But they are working OK in versions prior to NetBSD 7 !!
  >  By example they work ok in NetBSD 6.1, 6.0, 5.2, 5.1, 5.0, 4.x
 
 If they are using /dev/kmem (or equivalently, libkvm) that is purely
 an accident.
 
 However, if so they ought to work when recompiled for NetBSD 7.x, so
 probably something else is going on.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost