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Jim Warner
faf6d4dc93 library: the uref functions were insufficiently robust
The earlier attempt at protecting these functions from
already freed memory worked just fine until the memory
was, in fact, reused by the OS. At that point, the ref
count would most likely fail an existing a test for 0.

So this commit will take control of the 'info' pointer
and force it to NULL when a reference count reaches 0.

Plus, since it makes little sense returning an address
that a caller already has, henceforth we will return a
reference count out of the 'ref' and 'unref functions.

Reference(s):
commit 74beff80ff

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-07-01 21:30:17 +10:00
Jim Warner
74beff80ff library: make reads & unref logic a little more robust
Since we are not using a higher level standard C fopen
all of the read requests were made signal sensitive as
that can result in a 'temporarily' failed i/o request.

Also, protection against some user calling the 'unref'
function on already free memory has been incorporated.
This will protect us from some nasty 'Abort' surprise.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-06-29 21:30:48 +10:00
Jim Warner
a05084f381 library: add chaining provisions to meminfo and vmstat
If a caller chooses to reduce the overhead of repeated
function calls, this commit provides for acquiring all
the desired information in just a single library call.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-06-29 21:29:29 +10:00
Jim Warner
500a901475 library: tweak formatting style for meminfo and vmstat
This patch mostly just eliminates darn tab characters.

Plus the library function declarations and definitions
have been standardized. Most visibly, the input params
now have all been indented on their own separate line.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-06-29 21:29:19 +10:00
Craig Small
ca4a09c432 library: memory and vmstat API changes
Created new set of functions for meminfo related calls. Liked the
format of that better so changed vmstat around so the look similar.
Missed the makefile change for uptime so added it in now.
2015-06-26 22:37:28 +10:00
Craig Small
a410e236ab library: sysstat and vmstat api changes
Use the standard libc declarations.
For protecting the headers for C++ procps used to have its
own defines, this change makes them use the standard libc ones.

getstat() -> procps_stat_*
vminfo() -> procps_vmstat_*
These two components of the library now use the newer version of
the API with less exposed global variables. The old methods are
there for now.

Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
2015-06-26 22:37:28 +10:00