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Date:      Sun, 10 Nov 1996 11:01:28 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        obrien@NUXI.com (David E. O'Brien)
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: XFree86 contrib
Message-ID:  <199611101001.LAA09238@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199611100259.SAA14728@relay.nuxi.com> from "David E. O'Brien" at "Nov 9, 96 06:59:24 pm"

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As David E. O'Brien wrote:

> > That was truly a shot in the dark, all the clue I had was an "#else /* 
> > __bsdi__ */" and I don't know what BSDi's doing.  i hope I didn't
> > embarrass myself....
> 
> W/o see the entire function, it is hard to say.  But I can say that
> BSD/OS has a different interface for getting cpu usage from the kernel.
> I had to work thru this in my xcpustate port.  They use getkerninfo()
> rather than our kvm_read().

We don't use kvm_read() either. ;-) Both systems have getloadavg(3)
and applications should not care how the system actually implements
it.

I've already forwarded the fix from the XFree86 beta list to Satoshi.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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