On 11/07/06, Weldon Goree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
According to the source, `/sbin/sysctl hw.sensors` calls its own main
parsing routine 256 times to check each of the 256 possible sensors and
allocates its own list from the results. Eek. Since I'm just writing a
Yes, I thought the same thing
Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
> You can't get them all at once with one sysctl(3) call, as the memory
> they occupy is not allocated continuously -- a linked list is used,
> and each driver does sensor allocation on its own, and it's not a
> sysctl(3) job to merge this linked list together into an
On 11/07/06, Weldon Goree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
the buffer must hold? And how do I get all of them at once like (I
think) sysctl(3) says I can?
You can't get them all at once with one sysctl(3) call, as the memory
they occupy is not allocated continuously -- a linked list is used,
and each
On Mon, 10 Jul 2006, Weldon Goree wrote:
> sysctl(3) says that sysctl({CTL_HW, HW_SENSORS}, 2, NULL, &some_size_t,
> NULL, 0) should give me the size of the array of struct sensor's that
> sysctl({CTL_HW, HW_SENSORS}, 2, &some_buffer, &length_thereof, NULL, 0)
> will put into &some_buffer.
>
> Or
sysctl(3) says that sysctl({CTL_HW, HW_SENSORS}, 2, NULL, &some_size_t,
NULL, 0) should give me the size of the array of struct sensor's that
sysctl({CTL_HW, HW_SENSORS}, 2, &some_buffer, &length_thereof, NULL, 0)
will put into &some_buffer.
Or so I thought. In fact, it returns -1 and sets errno t
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