Brett Lymn wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:07:47AM -0400, Chapman Flack wrote:
>   
>> Yes ... they *could* all use sysctls ... the theory is lovely ...
>> but about 18 of 'em currently don't, and by what date do you predict
>> all 18 will have been re-engineered to use sysctls? 
>>     
>
> I don't want to get into whether or not the proposal is right or wrong
> but you are not correct with the 18 number there - some of the
> binaries you have listed only use a kvm groveller if you give it the
> right command line flags.  From memory, vmstat does this, so you can
> examine a crash dump - in this case you don't have much choice but to
> grovel through the memory image.  I believe this is the case with some
> of the other tools
>
> I know someone has recently put in a PR about systat requiring the
> kernel image, hopefully this will get fixed when someone gets some
> time.  I wonder if this would make a nice Google SoC project - convert
> all the tools reliant on kvm grovelling to use sysctl.
>
>   

This would be an excellent SoC project.

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