[Lcdproc] Update to lcdproc-iface

[Peter Marschall]

Hi,

On Sunday, 7. May 2006 16:00, Markus Dolze wrote:
> here is an update to the network stats code. Changes:
>
> Introduce a generic value conversion functions in util.c. sprintf_memory
> has been rewritten to use it.

Cool !!!
I have thought of something similar myself last week but was too lazy to do 
it.

> Remove code for running iface.c as a standalone client.
> Replace fprintf() and perror() calls in iface.c with report().
> Rewrite the value formatting code to use new value conversion from util.c.

Thanks for cleaning up further.

> The next step will be to move the machine dependend part of the network
> statistics gathering part into corresponding machine_* files. We already
> have Linux and FreeBSD.
>
> I am wondering what will be the best way to do that without break building
> on other systems before we have someone to port the code to that platform.
>
> Add a dummy implementation returning an error?
> Add some "autodetection" to configure?

What about simply #ifdef'ing the respective lines in lcdproc/main.c 
(i.e. the sequence[] line and the line in the help text) ?
IMHO this should be sufficient to disable the iface screens.

Another posibility would be to #ifdef the iface screen display routine to 
simply return when not Linux or FreeBSD.

Thanks
Peter

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Peter Marschall
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