[Nagiosplug-devel] RFC: OS specific ifdefs in main plugin code

[Voon, Ton]

Hi! Wanted to get some opinions on the latest development of the plugins.

I'm starting to use OS specific ifdefs to get system data and I was
wondering if this is the right way to go. The latest version of check_swap.c
has ifdefs for Solaris and AIX as they have different ways for checking
swap. It could have been done via ./configure, but there are too many
different possibilities (for instance, need to run different switches for
individual partition checks versus a summary of swap). 

If it was done via ./configure, you'd also need to set flags to say whether
to ignore first lines (some have header info, others don't), work out
different format responses (some return megabytes, some return free, some
return percentage).

I think all this is easier done within the code itself. Is this bad?

Ton


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