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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 < FreeBSD 4
13 < FreeBSD 5
12 > DragonFly BSD 1.x
13 > FreeBSD 4.x
14 > FreeBSD 5.x
15 > HP-UX 11.11 (parisc)
16   Linux 2.2
17   Linux 2.4
18   Linux 2.6
19 < NetBSD 1.6
19 > NetBSD 1.x
20 > NetBSD 2.x
21 > OpenBSD 3.x
22 > Solaris 2.6
23   Solaris 2.7
24 < Solaris 2.8
25 < Solaris 2.9
24 > Solaris 2.8 (sparc & x86)
25 > Solaris 2.9 (sparc & x86)
26 >
27 > Platform Specific Notes
28 > =======================
29 >
30 > Unless explicitly mentioned below assume that libstatgrab will run on
31 > any of the platforms above without any elevated privileges.
32 >
33 > Linux
34 > -----
35 >
36 > On Linux root privileges are required to get the statistics returned
37 > by the get_network_iface_stats function. Not having these privileges
38 > results in NULL being returned.
39 >
40 > Also note that this cannot be solved by calling sg_init and then
41 > sg_drop_privileges at this stage.
42 >
43 > FreeBSD 4
44 > ---------
45 >
46 > On FreeBSD 4 (not on 5) programs need to be setgid kmem to get swap
47 > statistics. It is sufficient to give a program these privileges, call
48 > sg_init, and then drop the privileges using sg_drop_privileges.
49 >
50 > The sg_get_swap_stats function will return NULL if this hasn't been done.
51 >
52 > Solaris 2.6/2.7
53 > ---------------
54 >
55 > On Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 root privileges are required to build the drive
56 > mapping list (eg. mapping ssd0 on to c0t0d0s0). If these privileges
57 > aren't available the names will be left as ssd0, for example.
58 >
59 > It is sufficient to use sg_init and sg_drop_privileges.
60 >
61 > Cygwin
62 > ------
63 >
64 > Full support for libstatgrab isn't yet provided on cygwin - there are
65 > some stats which we just can't get. In these cases the functions will
66 > return NULL to indicate failure.
67 >
68 > If you have installed libncurses-devel but the configure script can't
69 > find ncurses.h, you've most likely hit a bug in the cygwin package. To
70 > fix this run: /etc/postinstall/libncurses-devel.sh.done
71 >

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