Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Nov 1999 02:59:00 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Getting system info from the kernel |
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On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Alexander Viro wrote: > > It would be reall nice if we had a generally accepted library with sane > > interface that could be used by everything. Then the changes would be much > > easier. Right now we have all sorts of spiffy little utilities (seriously > > resembling DOS BBS collections - bad symptom in itself), each of them > > doing its own thing in its own way. Yes, if they would directly use the > > kernel memory it would be even worse. But even in the current form it's a > > mess. > > libgtop from the GNOME project
Umm... Looks reasonable, but... try to convince Albert that merge would be a good idea (libproc.so from procfs). Actually just about anything would go - it's the crapload of misc stuff (including <barf> shareware) that is a problem.
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