Hello everyone, I'm a college student studying CS in Columbia University. I'm interested in doing this project for Summer of Code 2009:
> Libprocstat and libnetstat > Suggested Summer of Code 2009 project idea > > Technical contact: Robert Watson > > Create, similar to libmemstat, wrapper libraries to support monitoring and > management applications to avoid direct use of kvm. Three parts to the > project: for each of the above, add kernel support to export data in a less > ABI-sensitive way using sysctl, write a library to present the information in > an extensible way to applications, and update applications to use the library > instead of reaching directly into kernel memory / consuming sysctls. The goal > is to allow the kernel implementation to change without breaking applications > and requiring them to be recompiled, and to allow monitoring functions to be > extended without breaking applications. This should also facilitate writing > new classes of monitoring and profiling tools. I'm going to focus mainly on netstat, however. Aside from that, I have a few questions: 1. Aside from the bug report, has there been any other discussion on this issue? I can't seem to find any in the mailing lists. 2. How much experience in C do you need to do this project? Do you need to know the FreeBSD kernel? Thanks in advance, Cipta Herwana _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
