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

[Stanislav Sedov]

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.

Sorry for being misleading!

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Stanislav Sedov
ST4096-RIPE

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