Subject: Re: libkvmstats???
To: Brian C. Grayson <bgrayson@ece.utexas.edu>
From: Darren Reed <darrenr@cyber.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/04/1998 09:59:15
In some mail I received from Brian C. Grayson, sie wrote
[...]
> Has anyone thought about adding a new library, like
> libkvmstats, that would contain a nice sysctl()/swapctl()-like
> interface to kernel statistics? Then our code to some of the
> various system utilities, and other third-party programs like
> top and xosview, wouldn't contain as much direct kernel-munging
> that has to be changed when the kernel internals change (like the
> swap stuff, which required changes to all sorts of utilities).
Perhaps a pstat(2) or pstat(3) equivalent ?
Darren