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From: kaleb@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley)
Subject: Re: no avenrun in 386BSD
Message-ID: <1993Jan14.001658.13984@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA)
References: <1993Jan13.204832.7321@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> <1j280lINNio2@life.ai.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1993 00:16:58 GMT
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In article <1j280lINNio2@life.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
>
>In article <1993Jan13.204832.7321@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
>kaleb@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Kaleb Keithley) writes:
>>
>> I double checked, 'nm /386bsd | grep avenrun' confirms that it didn't
>> get declared.
>
>It is there, but it's named `_averunnable'.
>
>Or you can just use getloadavg() in libutil.a.
>

Umh... Yeah, I saw that...  When the conditionals are right, avenrun is
derived from averunnable.  But averunnable is not avenrun.  And this
answer still doesn't address my questions.

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Kaleb Keithley                               kaleb@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov