New lib

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 07 January 2009, Hazel . wrote:
> I want to create a library to be used by desktops as a common API between
> different operative systems to hide the complex of obtaining and parsing
> hardware statistics like CPU, memory or network interfaces usage. Is there
> anything that already implements this?

there's a cross platform tool written in plain C in called "ksysguardd" which 
can be found in kdebase/workspace/ksysguard/ksysguardd. it has no dependencies 
other than a C compiler and one of the supported OSes (Linux, various BSD's, 
Solaris, Irix, Tru64).

it talks over a socket (so it can also be used to gather these stats 
remotely).

i'd suggest looking at it as a starting point since it's got all the hard work 
done and has been proven to work over many years of production use.

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