writing libnetstat for Summer of Code 2009

2009-03-16 Thread Cipta H
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 librari

Re: writing libnetstat for Summer of Code 2009

2009-03-16 Thread Cipta H
XML? I was thinking of some opaque C structures that the functions write data to, and then supply some accessor methods, just like the ones in libmemstat. Or are you thinking of a different XML? Cipta On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Rui Paulo wrote: > On 16 Mar 2009, at 14:16, Cipta H wr

Re: writing libnetstat for Summer of Code 2009

2009-03-16 Thread Cipta H
Thanks for the reply, Xin. I'm aware of something called sysctl, and if I am accepted to work on this project, my main task is to ensure all live network data will come from sysctl, but the only XML I know of is the markup language. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable can point me to the right resou

Re: writing libnetstat for Summer of Code 2009

2009-03-16 Thread Cipta H
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Many people consider top-posting to be rude.  FYI. > My comments below, where they belong. > > Cipta H wrote: >> >> Thanks for the reply, Xin. I'm aware of something called sysctl, and if >> I am accepted to

sysctl returning XML

2009-03-21 Thread Cipta H
Hello all, I'm interested in parsing sysctl output into a program. Now I've heard from here a while ago that some sysctl OIDs can return data in XML format, but so far I have only found one example, kern.geom.confxml. Are there any others that anyone happens to know about, especially in networking