Re: [screen-devel] Re: Load averages reported by screen on HP-UX 11.11

[Paul Ackersviller]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:37:49PM -0600, Erik Falor wrote:
> I've figured out how to display the correct load averages by looking
> at GNU's implementation of uptime.  I've created yet another GetLoadav
> function implementing that method for HP-UX.  Because it makes use of
> HP-UX's pstat_getdynamic() function, it has the nice benefit of not
> directly reading the values from kernel memory, and thus does not need
> to run setuid root.

Thanks, that sounds good.  Will this be committed anytime soon?
I'll try the patch if not.

> I've also fixed a few more build problems while I was at it.  On the
> HP-UX system I use at work, ./configure failed because it couldn't get
> sockets or fifos to work.  The problem is that some functions used by
> HP-UX's socket API is defined in sys/time.h instead of sys/select.h.
> In fact, HP-UX doesn't even have sys/select.h.  Through a combination
> of #ifdefs and #includes I was able to make it build.

I never had any such issues with 4.0.{2,3}, at least not recently.
Perhaps I tweaked some stuff I've forgotten about.

> Furthermore, HP-UX doesn't have a setenv() function, so I had to tweak
> the configure script to use GNU screen's built-in implementation.
> 
> I've built and run this patch on a HP-UX 11.11 machine, a SunOS 5.10
> as well as a couple of linux boxes.

I think I can try it out on an HP-UX 11.23 system as well.