[users at i-scream] Another one who wants AIX support

[Tim Bishop]

On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 11:08:41AM +0200, Jens Rehsack wrote:
> 2010/8/30 Jens Rehsack <rehsack at googlemail.com>:
> > 2010/8/30 Jens Rehsack <rehsack at googlemail.com>:
> >> 2010/8/26 Jens Rehsack <rehsack at googlemail.com>:
> >>> 2010/8/25 Jens Rehsack <rehsack at googlemail.com>:
> >>>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> Hi again,
> >>
> >> Looks like noone cares ... :(
> >>
> >>>> to my request, Tim Bishop told me, that on the list was
> >>>> another guy who want's to work on AIX support. Before
> >>>> I double effort, are there any news?
> >>>>
> >>>> Otherwise I would start implementing some stats using
> >>>> documented calls from nmon as described here:
> >>>> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/WikiPtype/ryo
> >>>>
> >>>> I can't access to the cvs repository from the office (firewall
> >>>> allows only http and https traffic), but I need to have a clean
> >>>> point to start. I would "mirror" the repository from my home
> >>>> pc and import it into a svn repo here, adding the metrics
> >>>> and submit the diff back in a few days.
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't see a good chance to synchronize in the meantime,
> >>>> except a public svn or git repo (http accessible) would be
> >>>> available.
> >>>
> >>> first day result is proc_stats, disk_io_stats and fs_stats (no
> >>> test/example).
> >>
> >> Final result (patch based on last submitted patch) for AIX port is attached.
> >>
> >>> I've recognized that the most functions are not reintrant, what
> >>> limits their usability in threaded environments (as we plan).
> >>> What is the preferred way out? Locking or rewriting the code
> >>> to be reintrant?
> >>
> >> Any comment on this?
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Jens
> 
> Here is the final patch and the cumulative patch since I imported
> libstatgrab.
> 
> Would be great to receive some feedback when it's imported into the
> repository.

Patch imported, along with the subsequent patch for autoconf.

Please test out the snapshot build here:

http://snapshots.i-scream.org/libstatgrab/libstatgrab-0.18.tar.gz

Tim.

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