svn commit: r221807 - in head: lib lib/libprocstat lib/libprocstat/zfs lib/libutil sys/kern sys/sys usr.bin/fstat usr.bin/fstat/zfs usr.bin/procstat

Kostik Belousov kostikbel at gmail.com
Sat May 14 10:28:16 UTC 2011


On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 02:15:23AM -0700, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> On Thu, 12 May 2011 14:26:40 +0300
> Kostik Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> mentioned:
> 
> > >
> > >     The newly introduced fuser(1) utility also uses this library and
> > >     able to operate via sysctl and kvm backends.
> > >
> > >     The library is by no means complete (e.g. KVM backend is missing
> > >     vnode name resolution routines, and there're no manpages for the
> > >     library itself) so I plan to improve it further. I'm commiting it
> > >     so it will get wider exposure and review.
> > >
> > >     We won't be able to MFC this work as it relies on changes in HEAD,
> > >     which was introduced some time ago, that break kernel ABI. OTOH
> > >     we may be able to merge the library with KVM backend if we really
> > >     need it there.
> > 
> > Could you, please, point out the mentioned ABI changes ?
> 
> Hi, Kostik!
> 
> It seems I was wrong and that change was actually introduced in 8.0.
> It thus makes MFC possible.  I don't have immediate plans for this
> though, but I might do it if there's enough demand and it demonstrates
> to be stable enough in HEAD.
I did not worried not about inability to merge the libprocstat.
It made me very uncomfortable to see the claim of the ABI skew
in the area which I supposed to have stable ABI.

Thanks for the clarification.
> 
> Sorry for being misleading!
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