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Revision: 1.6
Committed: Tue Mar 9 12:34:41 2004 UTC (20 years, 7 months ago) by tdb
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: LIBSTATGRAB_0_9
Changes since 1.5: +8 -1 lines
Log Message:
Add note about privileges, and more comment on state of cygwin port.

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# Content
1 libstatgrab PLATFORMS
2 http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3
4 $Id: PLATFORMS,v 1.5 2004/03/09 12:24:40 tdb Exp $
5
6 Supported Platforms
7 ===================
8
9 libstatgrab has been tested to work on the following platforms:
10
11 Cygwin ?.?
12 DragonFly BSD 1.0
13 FreeBSD 4
14 FreeBSD 5
15 Linux 2.2
16 Linux 2.4
17 Linux 2.6
18 NetBSD 1.6
19 OpenBSD 3.3
20 Solaris 2.6
21 Solaris 2.7
22 Solaris 2.8 (sparc & x86)
23 Solaris 2.9 (sparc & x86)
24
25 Platform Specific Notes
26 =======================
27
28 Unless explicitly mentioned below assume that libstatgrab will run on
29 any of the platforms above without any elevated privileges.
30
31 Linux
32 -----
33
34 On Linux root privileges are required to get the statistics returned
35 by the get_network_iface_stats function. Not having these privileges
36 results in NULL being returned.
37
38 Also note that this cannot be solved by calling statgrab_init and then
39 statgrab_drop_privileges at this stage.
40
41 FreeBSD 4
42 ---------
43
44 On FreeBSD 4 (not on 5) programs need to be setgid kmem to get swap
45 statistics. It is sufficient to give a program these privileges, call
46 statgrab_init, and then drop the privileges using statgrab_drop_privileges.
47
48 The get_swap_stats function will return NULL if this hasn't been done.
49
50 Solaris 2.6/2.7
51 ---------------
52
53 On Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 root privileges are required to build the drive
54 mapping list (eg. mapping ssd0 on to c0t0d0s0). If these privileges
55 aren't available the names will be left as ssd0, for example.
56
57 It is sufficient to use statgrab_init and statgrab_drop_privileges.
58
59 Cygwin
60 ------
61
62 Full support for libstatgrab isn't yet provided on cygwin - there are
63 some stats which we just can't get. In these cases the functions will
64 return NULL to indicate failure.
65
66 If you have installed libncurses-devel but the configure script can't
67 find ncurses.h, you've most likely hit a bug in the cygwin package. To
68 fix this run: /etc/postinstall/libncurses-devel.sh.done
69