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1 > libstatgrab PLATFORMS
2 > http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
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6 + Supported Platforms
7 + ===================
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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
23 < Solaris 2.9
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 >

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