New lib

[Carlos Olmedo]

El Miércoles, 7 de Enero de 2009, Aaron J. Seigo escribió:
> 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.

Yes, i know ksyswardd and i'll start from there. I want to centralize this 
code into a lib to let each desktop/app to use it as they wish (listening for 
connections or whatever).