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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Dave-Nuttall
- From: Dave-Nuttall@cup.portal.com (David Dave Nuttall)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: pstat, dtype & nlist
- Message-ID: <72568@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 16:46:07 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- Lines: 25
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- Request any information on the availability of source code
- for traditional Xenix utilities "dtype" and "pstat". Target
- platform is AT&T 3B2, System V, 3.2.3, CISC processor.
- However, we'd like to know about the code even if it hasn't
- seen a 3B2. (We know life is good for those who haven't seen
- a 3B2...but that is neither here nor anywhere.)
-
- -----
- Secondly, anyone with pointers to references on the function
- "nlist" under System V would be appreciated. We're trying to
- use that function to traverse memory locations which would provide
- status information on files. We have a customer who is CONVINCED
- that we can use it to build an alternative to System V "crash"
- and in lieu of "fsck" for a file system integrity check.
- The kind of thing he wants us to try and produce is a way to defrag
- a file system while the systems is running in multi-user....so we need
- to invent graceful ways of check to see if files are busy, and offer
- them a chance to close gracefully.
-
- Dialogue, etc. appreciated, however, we will not provide info
- on WHERE our customer gets the stuff that gets him to that frame
- of mind! In fact we don't want to know where he gets it!
-
- Thanks for your consideration.
- dave
-