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libstatgrab PLATFORMS |
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http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/ |
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$Id: PLATFORMS,v 1.9 2004/11/01 18:30:16 tdb Exp $ |
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Supported Platforms |
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libstatgrab has been tested to work on the following platforms: |
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Cygwin ?.? |
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DragonFly BSD 1.x |
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FreeBSD 4.x |
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FreeBSD 5.x |
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HP-UX 11.11 (parisc) |
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Linux 2.2 |
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Linux 2.4 |
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Linux 2.6 |
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NetBSD 1.x |
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NetBSD 2.x |
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OpenBSD 3.x |
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Solaris 6 |
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Solaris 7 |
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Solaris 8 (sparc & x86) |
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Solaris 9 (sparc & x86) |
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Solaris 10 (sparc) |
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Platform Specific Notes |
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Unless explicitly mentioned below assume that libstatgrab will run on |
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any of the platforms above without any elevated privileges. |
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Linux |
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On Linux root privileges are required to get the statistics returned |
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by the get_network_iface_stats function. Not having these privileges |
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results in NULL being returned. |
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Also note that this cannot be solved by calling sg_init and then |
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sg_drop_privileges at this stage. |
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FreeBSD 4 |
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On FreeBSD 4 (not on 5) programs need to be setgid kmem to get swap |
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statistics. It is sufficient to give a program these privileges, call |
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sg_init, and then drop the privileges using sg_drop_privileges. |
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The sg_get_swap_stats function will return NULL if this hasn't been done. |
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Solaris 2.6/2.7 |
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On Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 root privileges are required to build the drive |
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mapping list (eg. mapping ssd0 on to c0t0d0s0). If these privileges |
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aren't available the names will be left as ssd0, for example. |
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It is sufficient to use sg_init and sg_drop_privileges. |
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Cygwin |
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Full support for libstatgrab isn't yet provided on cygwin - there are |
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some stats which we just can't get. In these cases the functions will |
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return NULL to indicate failure. |
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If you have installed libncurses-devel but the configure script can't |
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find ncurses.h, you've most likely hit a bug in the cygwin package. To |
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fix this run: /etc/postinstall/libncurses-devel.sh.done |
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