From: Kamil Rytarowski <n54@gmx.com>
To: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Implement IP_STAT on NetBSD
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 22:26:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ea8d4798-1b58-00d4-1425-9c32303b03b1@gmx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52edb779-5a48-ccd0-4873-67551aa89eac@simark.ca>
On 13.04.2020 22:11, Simon Marchi wrote:
>> This compat shim is only to emulate Linux... it's possible to follow the
>> FreeBSD case and just print local kinfo_proc2 as-is (that is fully
>> OS-specific).
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> The same question applies to IP_STATUS.
> When you put it like this... it just seems useless to read the info from /proc.
>
> If sysctl is guaranteed to always be there and is the blessed way of getting the
> information, then let's just use that.
As the kernel emulates Linux in /proc, the stat file is more complete in
the kernel as there are missing fields (sys/rusage.h ones, eip, esp,
stack position etc)
> The goal is not to emulate Linux, but to
> use each OS's interface to get the required information.
Is it fine to print NetBSD specific internals from kinfo_proc2 in
NetBSD-specific format? Making up Linux-like output will be always
imperfect, but on the other hand end-users can be confused.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-13 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-13 18:19 Kamil Rytarowski
2020-04-13 19:16 ` Simon Marchi
2020-04-13 19:43 ` Kamil Rytarowski
2020-04-13 20:11 ` Simon Marchi
2020-04-13 20:26 ` Kamil Rytarowski [this message]
2020-04-13 20:43 ` Simon Marchi
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