Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Nov 1999 22:09:21 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Getting system info from the kernel |
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On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> > On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Alexander Viro wrote: > > >> It would be reall nice if we had a generally accepted library with sane > >> interface that could be used by everything. Then the changes would be much > >> easier. Right now we have all sorts of spiffy little utilities (seriously > >> resembling DOS BBS collections - bad symptom in itself), each of them > >> doing its own thing in its own way. Yes, if they would directly use the > >> kernel memory it would be even worse. But even in the current form it's a > >> mess. > > > > libgtop from the GNOME project > > I am sorry to say that libgtop is no longer LGPL software. > It is also a lowest-common-denominator library AFAIK.
The latter isn't too bad, but the former... Yep, it's a killer. Sorry, I've missed that when I looked at the thing. <shudder> it's their right, indeed, but it's damn silly. LGPL here would be almost ideal - that's exactly the case when you don't want binary-only code linking it statically. But GPL for system library... Defeats the point.
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