Re: ANN: TimeMon 4.0 ported to GNUstep

[Frederik Harwath]

On 2005-01-25 16:27:01 +0100 Gregory John Casamento 
<greg_casamento@yahoo.com> wrote:

> > As I said before: Using /proc to read system stati is evil_TM.
> > There are standard library calls that will give the same 
> > functionality,
> > after all.
> >
> > Almost every UNIX I know of has /proc, but each implementation 
> > differs, eg.
> > Solaris, AIX and HP/UX (bless you) use binary, not textual, files.
> >
> > So, I say again: using /proc is evil_TM.
>
> Yes, it is indeed evil(tm) on some level.  I will try to reduce the 
> evilness.
> :)
>
> First make it work... then make it portable...  do both at the same 
> time, if
> possible. :)
(As I was actually just starting to play with libgtop in order to 
create some kind of system monitoring app) let me suggest looking at 
libgtop

Greetings,
Frederik