On Mon, 2002-10-28 at 16:27, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 28-Oct-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > > John Baldwin wrote: > >> I mean, do you know what libgtop is used for? It's used to draw > >> little applets that display load averages and other silly system > >> monitor stuff in small spaces in GUI's. It seems to work quite > >> happily w/o any inode numbers or dev_t's for non-UFS filesystems. > >> I just don't see why some little graphical applet displaying a load > >> average or disk usage or ethernet device usage needs the inode > >> number and dev_t of vnode's in the kernel. I mean, geez. > > > > To build little applets that activate a flashing red light when > > certain files are written? > > Why do you need the inode number to do that. Just kqueue on the > file itself using a regular fd, and in that case you can stat(2) > the file if you really need the i-node number. You don't need > to use libkvm to actually go read the kernel to find this info!
You're probably right. But without waiting to re-architect libgtop, I think the immediate problem needs to be fixed. Shall I just commit my original patch that uses libkvm? Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
