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Revision: 1.4
Committed: Sun May 2 09:35:15 2004 UTC (20 years ago) by tdb
Content type: text/xml
Branch: MAIN
CVS Tags: HEAD
Changes since 1.3: +2 -2 lines
State: FILE REMOVED
Log Message:
Do a repo copy of the documentation to their new names, then delete the old
ones. They still need their content updating though. We also need docs for
the new process stats stuff, the error reporting code, and I think the FS
stats which seem to be missing.

File Contents

# Content
1 <?xml version="1.0"?>
2
3 <!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
4 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
5
6 <refentry id="get_general_stats">
7
8 <refentryinfo>
9 <date>$Date: 2004/03/11 17:35:24 $</date>
10 <releaseinfo>$Id: get_general_stats.xml,v 1.3 2004/03/11 17:35:24 tdb Exp $</releaseinfo>
11 </refentryinfo>
12
13 <refmeta>
14 <refentrytitle>get_general_stats</refentrytitle>
15 <manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
16 <refmiscinfo>i-scream</refmiscinfo>
17 </refmeta>
18
19 <refnamediv>
20 <refname>get_general_stats</refname>
21 <refpurpose>get general operating system statistics</refpurpose>
22 </refnamediv>
23
24 <refsynopsisdiv>
25 <funcsynopsis>
26 <funcsynopsisinfo>#include &lt;statgrab.h&gt;</funcsynopsisinfo>
27 <funcprototype>
28 <funcdef>general_stat_t *<function>get_general_stats</function></funcdef>
29 <void/>
30 </funcprototype>
31 </funcsynopsis>
32 </refsynopsisdiv>
33
34 <refsect1>
35 <title>Description</title>
36 <para>
37 This call returns details on the operating system.
38 </para>
39 <para>
40 It returns a pointer to a static buffer of
41 <structname>general_stat_t</structname>.
42 </para>
43 </refsect1>
44
45 <refsect1>
46 <title>Return Values</title>
47
48 <para>
49 The structure returned is of type
50 <structname>general_stat_t</structname>.
51 </para>
52
53 <programlisting>
54 typedef struct{
55 char *os_name;
56 char *os_release;
57 char *os_version;
58 char *platform;
59 char *hostname;
60 time_t uptime;
61 }general_stat_t;
62 </programlisting>
63
64 <variablelist>
65 <varlistentry>
66 <term><structfield>os_name</structfield></term>
67 <listitem>
68 <para>
69 the operating system name.
70 (eg. SunOS or Linux)
71 </para>
72 </listitem>
73 </varlistentry>
74 <varlistentry>
75 <term><structfield>os_release</structfield></term>
76 <listitem>
77 <para>
78 the operating system release.
79 (eg. 5.8 or 5.9 or Solaris)
80 </para>
81 </listitem>
82 </varlistentry>
83 <varlistentry>
84 <term><structfield>os_version</structfield></term>
85 <listitem>
86 <para>
87 the version level of the OS.
88 </para>
89 </listitem>
90 </varlistentry>
91 <varlistentry>
92 <term><structfield>platform</structfield></term>
93 <listitem>
94 <para>
95 the hardware platform (architecture) the OS runs on.
96 </para>
97 </listitem>
98 </varlistentry>
99 <varlistentry>
100 <term><structfield>hostname</structfield></term>
101 <listitem>
102 <para>
103 the name of the machine.
104 </para>
105 </listitem>
106 </varlistentry>
107 <varlistentry>
108 <term><structfield>uptime</structfield></term>
109 <listitem>
110 <para>
111 the uptime of the machine in seconds.
112 </para>
113 </listitem>
114 </varlistentry>
115 </variablelist>
116 </refsect1>
117
118 <refsect1>
119 <title>See Also</title>
120
121 <simplelist type="inline">
122 <member>
123 <citerefentry>
124 <refentrytitle>statgrab</refentrytitle>
125 <manvolnum>3</manvolnum>
126 </citerefentry>
127 </member>
128 </simplelist>
129 </refsect1>
130
131 <refsect1>
132 <title>Website</title>
133
134 <simplelist type="vert">
135 <member>
136 <ulink url="http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/">
137 http://www.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/
138 </ulink>
139 </member>
140 </simplelist>
141 </refsect1>
142
143 </refentry>