[collectd] generic JMX plugin

[Florian Forster]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 09:59:42AM -0400, matthew sporleder wrote:
> This is kind of a naive suggestion as I haven't tried to trace the
> code paths, but could collectd fork() the java plugin into its own
> proc before instantiation and then, hopefully, just work until the
> parent collect was killed and cleaned up its children?

Unfortunately: No. It might work under Linux because we have the
`clone(2)' system call there, but for a portable solution we would have
implement communication (for example: Adding to / reading from the
cache) via pipes or similar which is *a lot* of work.

-octo
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