svn commit: r256512 - head/usr.bin/netstat
Jeremie Le Hen
jlh at FreeBSD.org
Mon Oct 28 20:49:06 UTC 2013
Hi Gleb,
On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 09:55:08AM +0000, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> Author: glebius
> Date: Tue Oct 15 09:55:07 2013
> New Revision: 256512
> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/256512
>
> Log:
> Rewrite netstat/if.c to use getifaddrs(3) and getifmaddrs(3) instead of
> libkvm digging in kernel memory. This is possible since r231506 made
> getifaddrs(3) to supply if_data for each ifaddr.
>
> The pros of this change is that now netstat(1) doesn't know about kernel
> struct ifnet and struct ifaddr. And these structs are about to change
> significantly in head soon. New netstat binary will work well with 10.0
> and any future kernel.
>
> The cons is that now it isn't possible to obtain interface statistics
> from a vmcore.
Is there a kgdb macro or something like that that could be used for
debugging purpose?
--
Jeremie Le Hen
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