Re: [ADMIN] Re: Re: [PORTS] pgmonitor and Solaris

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:10:52PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> [010328 16:07] wrote:
> > Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> writes:
> > > FYI, the WU-FTPD code (2.6.0 or better) has a couple of more platforms 
> > > including UnixWare.  The UnixWare code will need /dev/kmem permission to 
> > > change it's stuff, so I don't know whether we want to do this or not, but 
> > > if people are looking at the ps stuff, please look at this as well.
> > 
> > Well, *I* sure wouldn't run Postgres with write permission on /dev/kmem.
> > Especially not just to make ps_status work...
> 
> Wow... is this all for "pgmonitor"?
> 
> sorry, just my opinion...
> 
> If it for pgmonitor then you guys ought to just mark it broken on
> these platforms, the non-"ps based" solution could have been
> implemented with all the time wasted trying to get the "ps based"
> hack working. :(

 If is still a mind for (IMHO) terrible work with 'ps'... not sure if 
it's interesting, but exist cross-platforms library for processes 
information loading - the libgtop. Supports:

	* All versions of Linux
	* FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD
	* BSD/OS
	* Digital Unix
	* Solaris
	* ..and may be others

 Sure, it's in C :-)

			Karel

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