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#include <kstat.h>kid_t kstat_read(kstat_ctl_t *kc, kstat_t *ksp, void *buf);
kstat_read() gets data from the kernel for the kstat pointed to by ksp. ksp->ks_data is automatically allocated (or reallocated) to be large enough to hold all of the data. ksp->ks_ndata is set to the number of data fields, ksp->ks_data_size is set to the total size of the data, and ksp->ks_snaptime is set to the high-resolution time at which the data snapshot was taken. If buf is non-NULL, the data is copied from ksp->ks_data into buf.
kstat_write() writes data from buf, or from ksp->ks_data if buf is NULL, to the corresponding
kstat in the kernel. kstat_write() requires
the PRIV_SYS_CONFIG
privilege
and MAC write access to /dev/kstat.
On success, kstat_read() and kstat_write() return the current kstat chain ID (KCID). On failure, they return -1.
kstat_write() requires the PRIV_SYS_CONFIG
privilege and MAC
write access to /dev/kstat.
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