[collectd] Collectd processes plugin for solaris 10

[Amit Gupta]

I wanted to build processes plugin on Solaris10, so I did specify
--enable-processes.

Solaris 10 does have libkvm but processes plugin uses kvm_getProcs (to
get a handle to the processes) which Solaris 10 libkvm doesn't have.
However, Solaris 10 libkvm do have kvm_getProc, kvm_nextProc, kvm_open
and so on, so it seems that it is possible to tweak the processes
plugin a little to get the processes data for Solaris 10.

I was just wondering if anyone has tried getting the processes plugin
to work on Solaris 10, so that I can work on the top of someone else
patch if possible.

Regards
Amit

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Florian Forster <octo at verplant.org> wrote:
> Hi Amit,
>
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 05:43:33PM +0530, Amit Gupta wrote:
>> Currently the collectd processes plugin fails to build on Solaris 10
>> (since there is no kvm_getprocs on solaris 10). Is there anyone who
>> has tried getting this plugin to work on Solaris 10?
>
> both, *BSD and Solaris, have a `KVM' library that work very alike. I'm
> sure they have the same origin but diverged since then.
>
> The processes plugin should automatically be disabled when building on
> Solaris. How come you get the problem? If you didn't specify something
> like `--enable-processes' but still get build errors, could you please
> provide the `config.log' file and ideally the output of `make'? Thanks
> :)
>
> Regards,
> -octo
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