[Machine readable output from userland utilities] report

[Zaro Korchev]

Hi everybody


This week I worked on libsol and sysctl. I also fixed some problems with the tools I already have converted.

I added support for big unsigned integers in libsol. This fixes a bug leading to big numbers being displayed as negative in several cases. This will also allow to use hexadecimal numbers in formats that support them. I made the necessary changes to make the tools use the unsigned integer type when necessary.

I implemented format detection in libsol. The initialization function that is called from each tool looks up the environment variable SOL_FORMAT to decide which format to use. The applications using libsol don't need to be aware of the format. I made the tools with libsol use this new initialization.

I made some changes on when libsol flushes the output to make it fully streamable.

I added support for libsol in sysctl.

I did some improvements on the other tools - vmstat, fstat and netstat.


Zaro