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SubjectRe: Getting system info from the kernel


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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