stan said on Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 04:45:12PM -0400: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 05:43:36PM -0400, Stewart Flood wrote: > > I'm starting a project to port a very large application from FreeBSD to > > Debian. I've gotten past some of the initial porting issues, but I'm stuck > > on this one: under FreeBSD we used the kernel memory interface (KVM), but > > Debian doesn't seem to have kvm.h and I can't find a man page on it. > > > > Is there a package that I need to install? If not, what do I use to get the > > functionality of KVM? > > > I don't know the answer to this, but I might be able to jog someones > memory. > > The kvm interface in the BSD's is used to collect things like process > information etc. > > How is that done in Linux? > > I'm talking about the kind of info that top shows.
You read values out of the /proc filesystem. I don't believe there is a KVM interface to the Linux /proc information, though; you'll need to provide your own layer. M
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