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Revision: 1.5
Committed: Tue Mar 9 12:24:40 2004 UTC (20 years, 1 month ago) by tdb
Branch: MAIN
Changes since 1.4: +46 -1 lines
Log Message:
Add platform specific notes (particularly on required privileges) to
the PLATFORMS file.

File Contents

# Content
1 libstatgrab PLATFORMS
2 http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
3
4 $Id: PLATFORMS,v 1.4 2004/02/16 14:55:32 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 Linux
29 -----
30
31 On Linux root privileges are required to get the statistics returned
32 by the get_network_iface_stats function. Not having these privileges
33 results in NULL being returned.
34
35 Also note that this cannot be solved by calling statgrab_init and then
36 statgrab_drop_privileges at this stage.
37
38 FreeBSD 4
39 ---------
40
41 On FreeBSD 4 (not on 5) programs need to be setgid kmem to get swap
42 statistics. It is sufficient to give a program these privileges, call
43 statgrab_init, and then drop the privileges using statgrab_drop_privileges.
44
45 The get_swap_stats function will return NULL if this hasn't been done.
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47 Solaris 2.6/2.7
48 ---------------
49
50 On Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 root privileges are required to build the drive
51 mapping list (eg. mapping ssd0 on to c0t0d0s0). If these privileges
52 aren't available the names will be left as ssd0, for example.
53
54 It is sufficient to use statgrab_init and statgrab_drop_privileges.
55
56 Cygwin
57 ------
58
59 If you have installed libncurses-devel but the configure script can't
60 find ncurses.h, you've most likely hit a bug in the cygwin package. To
61 fix this run: /etc/postinstall/libncurses-devel.sh.done
62