Does anyone have some documentation on the sysctl library and how to go about
using it in user-land? Even maybe just a snippet of code would help. I don't
want to re-invent the wheel if it is already in place.
The end result, I hope, would be a total rewrite of the procps package.
I realize that sounds really ambitious but I just feel that the
binary -> text -> binary conversion used when messing with /proc is just a tad
retarded. In an ideal world, /proc would just be machine-readable ;-)
But anyway.. it would get rid of so much of the kernel version dependance
of that whole package.. change a little text in /proc/meminfo and the whole
package explodes and people whine.
Maybe I have the idea of sysctl wrong, so please inform me if I do.
Thanks!