On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 01:02:07PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > It looks like Matt did this to fix vm.vmtotal. From sys/vm/vm_param.h: > > Make 'sysctl vm.vmtotal' work properly using updated patch from Hiten. > (the patch in the PR was stale). > > It looks to have been replaced by VM_TOTAL. I fixed libgtop[2] by > checking for VM_TOTAL, and using that instead of VM_METER. This seems > to work.
Of course, these things can be fixed. But I consider this change gratuitous and it breaks standard compatability rules: deprecate for one major version and remove in the second. I haven't seen any reason why this couldn't be added to vm/vm_param.h: #define VM_METER VM_TOTAL for compatability purposes. This change is way too sudden in an external API (if it's supposed to be internal, then protect it with an #ifdef _KERNEL already!). Regards, -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
