> -----Original Message----- > From: Michael C. Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, 28 February 2004 4:37 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Module to pull Netstat summary information? > > Hey, don't forget the end users on windows. At last count > there were more > than ... well lets see, one, two, three ... > > OK, the real reason I had to chime in is that I posted a > similar query a > couple months ago, asking if there was Net::Netstat on CPAN > and, if not, > why not. On the face of it, netstat would seem just the kind of thing > you'd find on CPAN, along with interfaces to other > network-related features > (HTTP, DNS, mail, FTP, news, sockets, and so on). Your > answer, Wiggins, > may well get to the heart of it, which may be that the source > of the data > filtered by netstat is heavily system dependent and not amenable to a > generalized solution, meaning that (again, guessing) any code > would be a > long chain of special cases. > > Like the original poster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), I have > an application > which uses netstat and it pains me greatly to have to shell > out to get that > information. Not to mention the burden of dealing with path > information, > error-handling if for some reason the shell fails, etc etc,
Not to mention the special casing to handle the variety of output formats generated by the various netstat genii out there. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
