libkvm: consumers of kvm_getprocs for non-live kernels?

Andriy Gapon avg at freebsd.org
Fri Nov 12 12:14:50 UTC 2010


on 12/11/2010 01:08 Stanislav Sedov said the following:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:55:45 +0100
> Ulrich Spörlein <uqs at spoerlein.net> mentioned:
>>
>>> Stas has ongoing work on a libprocstat, you might want to give him a ping. 
>>> I'm not sure if he plans to refactor some of those existing tools to use that 
>>> library or not, but crashdump support is a key goal of it.
>>
>> Thanks for the hint, stas CC'ed and reply-to set.
>>
> 
> Yes, the idea was to refactor all base tools
> to use libprocstat as well.  So far only
> procstat(8), fuser and fstat have been converted to use new functionality, so they are able to operate both on coredumps and on the live system.
> We still need to commit the libprocstat itself,
> though.
> 

Just to let you know that I am eagerly awaiting for that to happen.
Perhaps even could help with something if you'd need that.

-- 
Andriy Gapon


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