"David M" <Ne*******@yahoo.com> writes:
Thanks but the C Struct describing the data doesn't match up with the
list on the module-struct page.
this is the acct.h file
[...]
Tooting my ctypes horn (sorry for that):
thomas@linux:~/ctypes> locate acct.h
/usr/include/linux/acct.h
/usr/include/sys/acct.h
thomas@linux:~/ctypes> python ctypes/wrap/h2xml.py sys/acct.h -o acct.xml
creating xml output file ...
running: gccxml /tmp/tmpSWogJs.cpp -fxml=acct.xml
thomas@linux:~/ctypes> python ctypes/wrap/xml2py.py acct.xml -o acct.py
thomas@linux:~/ctypes> python
Python 2.4.1a0 (#1, Oct 23 2004, 15:48:15)
[GCC 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
import acct
acct.acct
<class 'acct.acct'> acct.AFORK
1 acct.ASU
2 acct.acct.ac_comm
<Field type=c_char_Array_17, ofs=36, size=17> acct.acct.ac_utime
<Field type=c_ushort, ofs=12, size=2> from ctypes import sizeof
sizeof(acct.acct)
64 acct.acct.ac_flag
<Field type=c_char, ofs=0, size=1>
thomas@linux:~/ctypes>
But it won't help you to decode/encode the comp_t fields into floats.
Note that the h2xml.py script requires gccxml.
Thomas