Re: so use sysctl (was: Re: libkvm sucks)

1999-05-18 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Marc Slemko wrote: > > In any case, it makes sense, and is a reasonable alternative. > Unfortunately it isn't portable, but that's life. And linux /proc is portable? -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) d...@newsguy.com d...@freebsd.org "If at first you don't succeed, sky

Re: so use sysctl (was: Re: libkvm sucks)

1999-05-17 Thread Marc Slemko
On Tue, 18 May 1999, Alfred Perlstein wrote: [...] > unf! > > part of a multithreaded ident server that i got bored with... > i'm not entirely sure it still works: Yea, that idea works, thanks. I didn't notice that the way this is done was changed in 3.x to add the sysctl option. I do wonde

so use sysctl (was: Re: libkvm sucks)

1999-05-17 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Mon, 17 May 1999, Marc Slemko wrote: > The premise: libkvm is fatally flawed by design, and fixing it is not an > easy proposition. > > The reasoning: reading from kernel data structures without any locking has > obvious race conditions. > > This is why any identd that uses libkvm sucks and