On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 02:15:23AM -0700, Stanislav Sedov wrote: > On Thu, 12 May 2011 14:26:40 +0300 > Kostik Belousov <kostik...@gmail.com> mentioned: > > > > > > > The newly introduced fuser(1) utility also uses this library and > > > able to operate via sysctl and kvm backends. > > > > > > The library is by no means complete (e.g. KVM backend is missing > > > vnode name resolution routines, and there're no manpages for the > > > library itself) so I plan to improve it further. I'm commiting it > > > so it will get wider exposure and review. > > > > > > We won't be able to MFC this work as it relies on changes in HEAD, > > > which was introduced some time ago, that break kernel ABI. OTOH > > > we may be able to merge the library with KVM backend if we really > > > need it there. > > > > Could you, please, point out the mentioned ABI changes ? > > Hi, Kostik! > > It seems I was wrong and that change was actually introduced in 8.0. > It thus makes MFC possible. I don't have immediate plans for this > though, but I might do it if there's enough demand and it demonstrates > to be stable enough in HEAD. I did not worried not about inability to merge the libprocstat. It made me very uncomfortable to see the claim of the ABI skew in the area which I supposed to have stable ABI.
Thanks for the clarification. > > Sorry for being misleading!
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