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

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