Re: /dev/drum versus libkvm?

[walt <wa1ter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hiten Pandya wrote:

>     ...we wanted to make use of sysctls for retrieving the
>     information instead of making libkvm calls.  Such sysctl calls
>     are currently used in a redundant manner...

Thanks, that tells me what I needed to know.

One last question technical question about libkvm:  I see several uses
of kvm_openfiles in DF code (e.g. pstat) where kvm_close is never
called.  This leaves me wondering what kvm_close is used for.