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libkstat(3LIB)

Name

libkstat - kernel statistics library

Synopsis

cc [ flag... ] file... –lkstat [ library... ]
#include <kstat.h>

Description

Functions in this library provide a general-purpose mechanism for providing kernel statistics to users.

INTERFACES

The shared object libkstat.so.1 provides the public interfaces defined below. See intro(3) for additional information on shared object interfaces.

kstat_chain_update kstat_close kstat_data_lookup kstat_lookup kstat_open kstat_read kstat_write

Files

/lib/libkstat.so.1

shared object

/lib/64/libkstat.so.1

64-bit shared object

Attributes

See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE Availability system/library Interface Stability Obsolete MT-Level See below

The kstat_open() function is safe. The remaining kstat functions are MT-Safe with the exception that only one thread may actively use a kstat_ctl_t * value at any time. Synchronization is left to the application.

See Also

pvs(1), kstat(3KSTAT), intro(3), attributes(7), kstat2(3KSTAT2), libkstat2(3LIB)

Notes

The functions in this library are deprecated. The libkstat function may be removed in a future release of Oracle Solaris. Use the libkstat2() function instead. For more information, see the libkstat2(3LIB) man page.