Re: libgtop2

[Marco Gerards <metgerards@student.han.nl>]

Manuel Menal <mmenal@hurdfr.org> writes:

>> I don't know what IP accounting is.
>
> Well, it's what you get with ifconfig (or /proc/net/dev) in Linux.
> Like, the number of received/sent packets/bytes, errors,
> collissions, things like that. Drivers keep count of them already
> (rx_errors, rx_bytes, tx_packets, etc.). The code is mostly
> there in <gnumach/linux/dev/core/dev.c:sprintf_stats>.
> Adding an interface that would return a struct to user space,
> instead of putting it under /proc, wouldn't be hard, would it?

Can't you get it with ifconfig or netstat on GNU/Hurd?  pfinet knows
about this kind of stuff, so I assume you can get the info from
there.  This should not be too hard.

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Marco