Re: monit for AIX

[Jan-Henrik Haukeland]

Richard Schwaninger <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
> On Monday 03 March 2003 07:35, you wrote:
> > Richard Schwaninger <address@hidden> writes:
> > > I have added support for AIX 4.3.3 to monit. The corresponding
> > > files are included - you may add them to the distribution.
> > > Appended is sysdep_AIX.c
> >
> > Thank you for the contribution! Allthough I'm not sure we will want to
> > support AIX since I do not think anyone in the project actually has
> > access to an AIX machine. Christian, as responsible for the sysdep
> > code what are your thoughts on this?
> 
> some more comments on the AIX port:
> the problem with the errno value on getpgid() is related to the
> threads as you indicated. When errno.h is included before phtread.h
> then the code fails. Either including pthread.h first or setting
> _THREAD_SAFE to 1 does the trick. 

That's nice to know. BTW, does _REENTRANT work instead of
_THREAD_SAFE? Those defines are often intermixed. Anyway it's up to
Christian if he want's to include the AIX port.
 
> The define PIDMASK is already used in /usr/include/sys/proc.h on
> AIX. Please change it to eg. MYPIDMASK (the same as the other
> variables like MYPIDDIR).

I'm changing it globally so its in accordance with our other style

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Jan-Henrik Haukeland