Re: [screen-devel] Re: Load averages reported by screen on HP-UX 11.11

[Erik Falor]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 03:42:47AM +0000, Paul Ackersviller wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:37:49PM -0600, Erik Falor wrote:
> > I've figured out how to display the correct load averages by looking
> > at GNU's implementation of uptime.  I've created yet another GetLoadav
> > function implementing that method for HP-UX.  Because it makes use of
> > HP-UX's pstat_getdynamic() function, it has the nice benefit of not
> > directly reading the values from kernel memory, and thus does not need
> > to run setuid root.
> 
> Thanks, that sounds good.  Will this be committed anytime soon?
> I'll try the patch if not.
> 
> > I've also fixed a few more build problems while I was at it.  On the
> > HP-UX system I use at work, ./configure failed because it couldn't get
> > sockets or fifos to work.  The problem is that some functions used by
> > HP-UX's socket API is defined in sys/time.h instead of sys/select.h.
> > In fact, HP-UX doesn't even have sys/select.h.  Through a combination
> > of #ifdefs and #includes I was able to make it build.
> 
> I never had any such issues with 4.0.{2,3}, at least not recently.
> Perhaps I tweaked some stuff I've forgotten about.

I've only had this problem with the latest development version of
screen.


> > Furthermore, HP-UX doesn't have a setenv() function, so I had to tweak
> > the configure script to use GNU screen's built-in implementation.
> > 
> > I've built and run this patch on a HP-UX 11.11 machine, a SunOS 5.10
> > as well as a couple of linux boxes.
> 
> I think I can try it out on an HP-UX 11.23 system as well.

That would be great.  We're down to only one HP-UX machine at work,
and it'll be phased out before long.  I appreciate anyone who can test
this patch on other versions.

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Erik Falor
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