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>
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>
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>
This patch fills in some missing fields which have top
dependencies. Additionally, I've tried to mirror those
calculations Jaromir added for release 3.3.10. The one
calculation that remains missing is 'available' memory
for some kernels. For this API, we'll use a fall-back.
Lastly the lxc safeguards which were recently added to
the old procps library were incorporated here as well.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
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>
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.
