From 4867aeb235e1f1792154d2e7f7936ca717860adf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@hyperic.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:27:02 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [SIGAR-126] /dev/kmem not usable in aix 6

---
 src/os/aix/aix_sigar.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/os/aix/aix_sigar.c b/src/os/aix/aix_sigar.c
index 171a6806..4679617a 100644
--- a/src/os/aix/aix_sigar.c
+++ b/src/os/aix/aix_sigar.c
@@ -164,8 +164,9 @@ int sigar_os_open(sigar_t **sigar)
 
     if (kmem > 0) {
         if ((status = get_koffsets(*sigar)) != SIGAR_OK) {
-            free(*sigar);
-            return status;
+            /* libperfstat only mode (aix 6) */
+            close((*sigar)->kmem);
+            (*sigar)->kmem = -1;
         }
     }