At 04:57 PM 3/27/2002, you wrote: >Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > > > > So if a third-party is interested in examining the scoreboard, they > > have to do it either via a module or attach to the shared-memory > > segment? > > > >Yep... For the record, we don't use any of this right now, and I doubt >that building with it defined would work at all. In the old days, >the scoreboard was implemented as a file; we added mmap() and shmget() >later, but always kept file-based around. What we do now is use >shared mem exclusively, whether it maps to a file or not. The 2 >are very different :)
Nothing that I know of says they cannot define an shmem backing file and map that <named> file for monitoring the server. There simply won't be a 'file'-based scoreboard API, right? Bill