porting an app that checks /proc/meminfo

[Brooks Davis]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 08:11:06AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > way of getting these values? As I wrote in my reply to
> > Brooks, perhaps some call that, although implemented
> > differently in each OS, will have the same API for a
> > programmer. So s/he can use it across different Unix OSes?
> 
> The only way I know of is to use a pre-existing library called
> libstatgrab.  The author has already written the code you want; and
> yes, it's done how you think (re: "the awful way"); most of the
> pain is relieved via the use of configure.  libstatgrab works on
> the following platforms:

Something like this is basicly your only option for system stats.  There
is no POSIX API.

-- Brooks

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