Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 16:27:49 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>, current@FreeBSD.org, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Subject: Re: libgtop port and v_tag changes Message-ID: <XFMail.20021028162749.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3DBDA4FB.E594450C@mindspring.com>
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On 28-Oct-2002 Terry Lambert wrote: > 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? Why do you need the inode number to do that. Just kqueue on the file itself using a regular fd, and in that case you can stat(2) the file if you really need the i-node number. You don't need to use libkvm to actually go read the kernel to find this info! -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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