iostat, vmstat and other kvm(4) users

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Fri Nov 19 06:39:55 PST 2004


On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 01:11:52PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     dmesg must work.  ps must work.  Maybe a few others.  But not iostat.

Would it be OK to have two versions of this programs? dmesg might not
be critical, but esp. ps is currently heavenly depending on the layout
of struct proc. Because it is also statically linked, there's no easy
way to support changing struct proc [the kernel version].

Joerg

> 
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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