From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 28 12:59:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EFB637B406; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:59:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net (conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 803E343E7B; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:59:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0064.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.64] helo=mindspring.com) by conure.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 186GzI-0003Y7-00; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:59:52 -0800 Message-ID: <3DBDA4FB.E594450C@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 12:58:35 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke , current@FreeBSD.org, Nate Lawson Subject: Re: libgtop port and v_tag changes References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin wrote: > I mean, do you know what libgtop is used for? It's used to draw > little applets that display load averages and other silly system > monitor stuff in small spaces in GUI's. It seems to work quite > happily w/o any inode numbers or dev_t's for non-UFS filesystems. > I just don't see why some little graphical applet displaying a load > average or disk usage or ethernet device usage needs the inode > number and dev_t of vnode's in the kernel. I mean, geez. To build little applets that activate a flashing red light when certain files are written? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message