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Re: [pcp] Changes to Solaris PMDA

To: Max Matveev <makc@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [pcp] Changes to Solaris PMDA
From: Nathan Scott <nscott@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 10:01:53 +1000 (EST)
Cc: pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <19085.22662.937535.628551@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
----- "Max Matveev" <makc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:42:53 +1000 (EST), Nathan Scott wrote:
> 
>  nscott> I'll pull it into my branch when I get some time (later
> today
>  nscott> hopefully) - Mark would like another 2.9.x point release
>  nscott> before his 3.0 release, so will try to do that this week -
>  nscott> I'd like to spend some time on pcpqa too before that, so
> need
>  nscott> to find a chunk of time ... after that will push it into the
>  nscott> master branch as next point release.
> 
> Next two weeks are going to be crazy for me, I'm not sure I can do
> much other them simple things like kicking the build now and then.
> 
>  nscott> It'd be great if you (and Ken) could drop by the #pcp IRC
>  nscott> channel where these things get discussed too - its pretty
> low
>  nscott> traffic volume ... :)

Not sure how that goal is going - next week might be better for me
too (haven't heard much else from Mark this week either).

> I did but there is nobody there...

Heh, you found the old one I think (_really_ low volume there!) ...
everyone hangs out on #pcp on freenode.net nowadays (as described on
the pcp web pages).

>  nscott> Might be a good idea to put pre-built Solaris packages on
> oss
>  nscott> too?
> 
> Solaris package right now is pretty basic - no dependencies, not
> pre/post scripts, just put bits on disk and let user do her "stuff".
> I
> can build them on OpenSolaris 2009.06 with either GCC or SunStudio
> Express compilers - it's not a lot of work.
> 
> There is one issue with dbpmda which have been bugging me for some
> time - I get no prompt on Solaris but I have had no time to dig into
> it.

Run it with "-i"?  Probably isatty(3) returning something unexpected
for stdin on Solaris?  Windows is in a similar boat (works under the
DOS prompt, but the more "exotic" shells, like msys, mishandle this
API call somehow).

> And I've never run any pcpqa on Solaris either but pcp does get some
> use in our daily grind.

OK cool, thanks Max.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan

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