From 33cdc01c1db3a1cafaeb63e50247072b82ef49ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Baulig Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 18:19:50 +0000 Subject: Initial revision --- README | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5cfe7a3a --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +Hi all, + +[PLEASE READ THE FILE ``README.LATEST'' FOR LATEST NEWS] + +this is the latest alpha version of libgtop, a library that fetches +information about the running system such as cpu and memory usage, +active processes etc. On Linux systems, these information are taken +directly from the /proc filesystem. For other systems such as Solaris, +where such programs need to be suid root (or only setgid kmem/mem on +some systems), it provides a suid/setgid server that fetches those +information and a client-side library that talks to this server. + +Main idea was to have the same interface for all operating systems, +thus all system dependent details are hidden in the implementation +of that server. + +Currently, it only works for Linux, documentation on how to port it +to other systems is on the way. I'm planning to keep this site an +up-to-date mirror of my local machine (which is connected to the +internet over some expensive dialup connection, so I'll upload it about +once every day I made significant changes) so that you can always find +the latest version of the software here. + +I've written a simple guile interface for the library to show which +information it can already fetch. See examples/third for details. + +Source Code: +=========== + + libgtop-current-cvs.cpio.gz is a cpio archive from the CVS repository + libgtop-current.cpio.gz contains the lates checked out sources + libgtop-stable.cpio.gz if present, it contains the last stable release + +Documentation: +============= + + libgtop.sgml is the SGML source of the (DocBook) documentation + +The next three files are only provided until they get too big to upload. + + libgtop.tex TEX file of the documentation + libgtop.dvi DVI file of the documentation + libgtop.ps Postscript file of the documentation + +HTML-Documentation: +================== + + libgtop.shtml Start here to browse the HTML documentation + +Other stuff: +=========== + + README, NEWS, ChangeLog copied from the sources + +Enjoy it! + +Martin (martin@home-of-linux.org - baulig@merkur.uni-trier.de) -- cgit v1.2.1