[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ognyan Kulev) writes:
> fsysopts is used to _control_ translators. But is there a design decision
> how to _query_ them? For example, if we want statistics about pfinet
> packets. Or each translator must include MiG procedures in its interfaces
> to allow querying such stuff? Almost each translator can be queried for
> various statistics and this is the Hurdish /proc.
Different Unix processes do it different ways. To query Bind, for
example, you send it various signals. Similarly for sendmail. Most
Unix programs don't provide such interfaces at all.
Here's a suggestion if you want something more uniform:
Programs that want to be queryable create nodes in the filesystem and
register themselves as active translators for those files; they report
their info in response to read calls. All that could be bundled
nicely into a completely self-contained library routine, and would
make a nice programming project for someone to write.
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