Libxo bugs and fixes.

[Alfred Perlstein]

On 8/15/14 9:52 PM, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 17:35:23 -0700, Alfred Perlstein writes:
>> should get towards converting more utils to using it.  However if we are
>> going to perpetually add frameworky things, but not convert over
>> userland tools to the actual framework, then that is a potential problem
>> worth calling out.
> Indeed.  Again that's why I prefer to see this (the library at least)
> done by someone who's been doing this sort of thing successfuly for
> ages.
OK,

So I've been hacking on this over the last day or so and have the 
following deltas up for review:

1) We need libxo to support explicit fflush:
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1379

2) We need libxo to support time series data.  I don't have a patch for 
that, but I would like to ask for ideas on this.  This would be 
extremely helpful for instance "netstat 1".  would like to get a very 
accurate timestamp with each row.  Suggestions on how to do this 
correctly AND *consistently* via libxo would make sense.

3) I have netstat mostly converted over, however not all the json is 
valid, I will be doing another pass ASAP on this.
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1380

4) Can I as politely as I know how, ask that Juniper keep the patches 
against the userland utils up to date either in a project branch in SVN, 
or simply in a fork of the github repo?  This would make life so much 
easer to deal with.

As an example you can look at my github repo where I have the netstat 
code forward ported on a branch here:
https://github.com/splbio/freebsd/tree/ap_libxo_netstat
and here:
https://github.com/splbio/freebsd/compare/ap_libxo_netstat?expand=1


-Alfred