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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: SYSTEM V load average daemon problem
Message-ID: <6313@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 13:28:29 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 21 13:28:29 1987
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References: <396@uni2.bcm.tmc.edu>
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Keywords: loadav sysv

In article <396@uni2.bcm.tmc.edu> sob@watson.bcm.tmc.edu (Stan Barber) writes:
>The loadav daemon claims it cannot find the sysinfo structure, yet
>I can do an nm on /unix and see it there. 

My first guess is that the daemon is tyring to look up "_sysinfo"
but that the actual extern name is "sysinfo".  System V C compilers
differ in whether or not they prepend _ to external names (this is
caused by differences in assembler behavior for names such as "r5").