Now that a potential use of that bottom 'window' for a
menu has been demonstrated, we'll remove such clutter.
[ after all, the prior commit cautioned against text ]
[ made conditional which might also be translatable. ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This patch attempts to reduce the proliferation of the
bottom window support routines by combining the 'misc'
with 'item' functions. Along the way we can now rename
those two 'pick' functions 'menu' while keeping proper
alphabetic order among all the bottom window routines.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Since top now uses string vectors for two items in the
new focus window (cmdline & environ), there is no real
use for that 'separator' specified at toggle time. So,
this commit will find a new use for what is the space.
Henceforth, when a user is navigating using the tab or
backtab keys, should a strv element with focus contain
embedded space(s), it will be emphasized & highlighted
using the current window's message color (capclr_msg).
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Some of those bottom windows grow quite large, as with
the firefox environment. If one is navigating the data
using the tab key, it can be very inconvenient when an
element should be reexamined but that focus has moved.
Therefore, this commit will support the 'back_tab' key
which is a standard combination of the shift+tab keys.
Now a user can easily backup up to any missed element,
assuming a terminal emulator honors that terminfo key.
[ a gui emulator typically will honor the 'back_tab' ]
[ terminfo string, whereas a linux console does not. ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
After satisfying increased buffer size in the previous
patch, I decided to improve the highlight accuracy for
both the command lines plus the environment variables.
Since they both may contain elements which themselves
include embedded spaces, to accomplish this goal, one
must trade vanilla strings for string vectors instead.
[ at last such library items have now been justified ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
As it turns out, some of the 'environ' strings are big
enough to overrun the initial buffer sizes. And, while
no real harm was done (other than to silently truncate
the output), this patch will increase the buffer size.
While we're at it. we will normalize a few more buffer
declarations along with correcting a couple typos too.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit adds a prototype for a potential extension
of that tabbed bottom window capability. It introduces
a 'menu' which then provides for users' selections. It
does not actually do anything meaningful and will only
be enabled with the new #define called 'BOT_PICK_YES'.
[ since it's just a proof of concept, no attempt has ]
[ been made to add the usual NLS translation support ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit introduces the 'tab' key which can be used
to highlight individual elements in that bottom 'Ctrl'
window. This can really help when reviewing such data.
[ note, normal ongoing monitoring continues unabated ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit adds support for displaying the namespaces
in top's separate bottom 'Ctrl' window. Along the way,
the plumbing is now in place to extend this capability
to other data (if we don't run out of '^' keystrokes).
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This patch will just set the stage for the next commit
where we'll be adding the capability to display things
that sometimes may necessitate multiple library items.
In that effort we will be adding several new routines.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Well darn it, whoever wrote that new library caught me
with my pants down (again?). Shoot, they were not just
down but somehow missing altogether. Here's the story.
Any item from that library supported by dynamic memory
can only be represented in user's stacks exactly once.
Should any string based enumerator be duplicated among
the items array, for any instance beyond the first the
library will return '[ duplicate ENUM ]' for a result.
That's where I lost my pants. While command lines were
given special handling (and never duplicated) I failed
to turn on CGROUPS, SUPGRPS & ENVIRON when testing the
Ctrl-G, Ctrl-U & Ctrl-N keys. If any of those 3 are on
that's when a Ctrl window sees a 'duplicate' notation.
[ and who runs top with such fields displayed anyway ]
In responding to this oops, the internals were changed
quite dramatically & vastly simplified in the process.
More importantly, the 'duplicate' results are no more.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
To complete the implementation of this new feature, we
must address the problem created by any commands which
offer their own full replacement displays. Should that
'Ctrl' bottom window be active, a return from any such
command leaves that lower portion of a terminal blank.
While we could issue a 'TAGGED_TOSS' macro right after
invoking any of those 4 (currently) affected commands,
it is wrong to make them aware of this 'tagged' stuff.
So, I'll opt for a more generalized solution whereby a
notice regarding a corrupted screen is broadcast. Then
the logic already aware of 'tagging' can deal with it.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
After making that new bottom window more persistent, I
decided to offer a build choice for somebody who might
prefer to have the rug pulled out from under him while
reviewing window contents should some target task end.
If 'TAGGED_BRIEF' is defined old behavior is restored.
[ it should be noted, however, that when this define ]
[ is active we'll lose any benefit of onetime update ]
[ for the bottom window. just like with the original ]
[ behavior, it is repainted with every update cycle. ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
I grew tired of inadvertently causing a premature exit
from top when all I wanted was to review some process'
environment variables. That 'V' key was just too close
to the 'C' key so the '^V' attempt became one of '^C'.
Well, not any more. Should a user wish to see a task's
environment, it will now require the '^N' combination.
[ it also now places G/U & N/K on a similar diagonal ]
Along the way, lower case Ctrl key combinations on the
help screen were all changed into upper case versions.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
After using this new feature for awhile, I encountered
numerous times when that 'Ctrl' window would disappear
as I was studying the contents. This was caused by the
death of the target task but it made me think that the
window could/should persist until dismissed by a user.
Well, now it will persist until that same Ctrl key has
been struck a 2nd time or a different Ctrl key used to
target another process after positioning it on row #1.
So now, instead of that former 'moving target' type of
approach, this window is more of a 'snapshot' in time.
[ even more significant, perhaps, is the fact that a ]
[ Ctrl window will now be drawn exactly 1 time only, ]
[ instead of being repainted after each delay cycle. ]
[ this will remain true no matter how many intervals ]
[ might elapse while its contents were under review. ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
There are times when one might want to see some task's
particular variable width data. However, prior to this
commit, the only way was to first turn on a field then
scroll through it via repeated right arrow keystrokes.
[ this also required that field to be displayed last ]
Needless to say, given the potential length of some of
that variable data this could be extremely cumbersome.
Now with this patch, a Ctrl keystroke combination will
create a separate window at the bottom of the terminal
screen where such variable width data is seen in full.
[ the targeted task is the 1st task displayed, which ]
[ is a convention employed in some existing commands ]
[ the targeted data was determined by these Ctrl key ]
[ combinations: CtrlG = ctrl group; CtrlK = cmdline; ]
[ CtrlU = supplementary groups; plus CtrlV = environ ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
When autogroups are active programs such as renice and
nice are basically useless because the nice value will
only affect the target task priority relative to other
processes in the same autogroup. So to accomplish what
we thought of as renice, /proc/<pid>/autogroup must be
changed. Altering a single member in an autogroup will
also affect every other member of that same autogroup.
Since top's renice provision ('r') suffers constraints
like those of the stand alone nice/renice programs, we
will now provide a means to manipulate that nice value
found within some process' /proc/<pid>/autogroup file.
[ to alter this file for other user's tasks requires ]
[ root privileges, as does setting a negative value. ]
[ however, unlike that 'r' command, this new command ]
[ allows raising *and* lowering all positive values. ]
Reference(s):
. Aug 2021, autogroups added to librady
commit 631e5d91f3
. Aug 2021, autogroups added to top
commit b789b46f84
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
On occasion, even as the top author, I wonder why that
'x' toggle has stopped working. Of course, it actually
was working but a locate request ('L') or other filter
('O') operation was active and thus temporarily turned
if off. Such behavior is documented in top's man page.
Well, with this patch that 'x' suppression is no more.
[ the original justification, however, remains true. ]
[ but there's really only one character which causes ]
[ any potential trouble & i'm gonna' keep it secret. ]
[ besides, if a display is corrupted, there's always ]
[ that '=' key which restores things back to normal. ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
It would appear that openSUSE was the first to release
procps-ng version 4.0.0 (in the tumbleweed distro). As
a result I checked their source rpm and found a couple
of patches I'm porting to newlib for the next release.
This particulate commit was a refactor of the openSUSE
patch 'procps-ng-3.3.8-bnc634840.patch'. Unfortunately
their original patch did not have the intended effect.
That was because the amended signal handling logic was
performed well before the command line parameters were
parsed. So the global 'Batch' flag was in its 0 state.
. what follows is the original openSUSE commit message
------------------------------------------------------
Do not setup SIGHUP signal handler if we are in the batch mode
Top enables a signal handler for the SIGHUP signal (loss of terminal). While
this makes sense for top's default interactive mode, it doesn't make any sense
for batch mode. If you run top in nohup just to collect data over time and
disconnect top finishes which is not what one would expect.
------------------------------------------------------
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
When we transitioned from 'char' based fields to 'int'
proper initial cursor positioning (highlight) was lost
in the 'fields_utility' function. The highlight should
appear on the current sort field. Instead, however, it
was often positioned on the first field listed or some
completely different field other than that sort field.
So this patch will restore the master branch behavior.
[ and on the assumption that a sort field is visible ]
[ we will search first for a field with the 'on' bit ]
Reference(s):
. Mar, 2022 - trade 'char' for 'int'
commit 46aa96e438
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
When the configuration file is first written, there is
just the normal single newline which ends that rcfile.
However, when any existing rcfile was rewritten, there
was one extra newline '\n' character added at the end.
This will happen just once. The file does NOT continue
to grow with the extra blank lines always being added.
Anyway, this patch will put an end to such a practice.
[ along the way i fixed an unrelated whitespace oops ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This new integer based version of 'fieldscur' deviated
a bit too much from that character based logic when it
comes to ancient 3.2.8 rcfile support. This results in
an inappropriate extra field shown as the last column.
If we're truly dealing with 20 year old 3.2.8 rcfiles,
it's important the 3.3.9 extension (RCF_PLUS_H) not be
concatenated to what was read. That's because a search
for the special SUSE characters will always find a '\'
in the 26th position (after normal 3.2.8 'fieldscur').
[ for symmetry, we'll also avoid RCF_PLUS_J (3.3.17) ]
All other 'old' rcfiles are transformed without error.
Reference(s):
. Mar, 2022 - 3.2.8 support restores
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This patch will restore the previously abandoned older
rcfile support. To be honest, I wasn't sure this would
be possible given the vast difference between formats.
But after some very intense hacking our newlib top can
again fully support seamless migration from some older
'char' based file to this new 'int' based file format.
[ top even supports a 20+ year old 3.2.8 config file ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
As I speculated in a prior commit, this patch will now
demonstrate how simple it is to extend the upper limit
of supportable fields. With these changes we'll now go
from facing the old limit of 86 to a new limit of 100.
No other changes are needed nor is any logic impacted.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
With each of those references shown below, the maximum
number of fields was increased. However, with a 'char'
based implementation we're nearing the upper limits of
total displayable fields. We currently use 76 of a max
of 86 fields. With extra effort, 94 might be possible.
But 94 is the absolute upper limit of possible fields!
Moreover, the current implementation yields characters
that were unprintable in the rcfile. This could become
an issue with that 'inspect' feature when/if an rcfile
is edited to add entries (as opposed to using 'echo').
So, with this commit the internals of field management
has been completely reimagined. It is now based on the
integer type, not a character. And whereas that former
design used the high order bit to show the 'on' state,
thus yielding an unprintable character, the new design
uses the low order bit for the state. As such, numbers
will be kept small and an even number will be an 'off'
field whereas an odd number will become an 'on' state.
The bottom line is that this new design will afford an
unlimited number of new fields while keeping an rcfile
completely free of that potential unprintable garbage.
And it is embarrassingly easy to extend the maximum of
supportable fields from the currently implemented 100.
Who knows, maybe a future patch will prove this point.
[ unless a subsequent commit proves otherwise, given ]
[ the dramatic differences in rcfile contents, i had ]
[ to abandon the practice of supporting old rcfiles. ]
Reference(s):
. Nov, 2013 - RCF_PLUS_H introduced
commit af4e6533ba
. Jul, 2016 - RCF_PLUS_J introduced
commit d5c5051fb3
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This warning was added after discovering openSUSE uses
the option with (at least) their 'tumbleweed' version.
The man document sections impacted are: 4e, 5d and 5e.
That is where it was asserted sort column highlighting
would be temporarily turned off if search ('L') and/or
filtering ('O') is active. This option makes it false.
[ shame on suse for not also correcting the man page ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit just compliments a change referenced below
by providing the value which includes reaped children.
Reference(s):
. Feb, 2022 - added %CUU field
commit 7647e96b0a
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
That normalization of the 'scale_tics' function in the
prior commit convinced me that I won't please everyone
with my arbitrary choices for the scaling transitions.
So, this patch will provide the users with a means for
setting their own scaling transition points with a new
toggle. Ctrl-E was chosen since the 'e/E' toggles were
already present as a means of scaling (albeit memory).
[ this toggle will also serve an educational purpose ]
[ by allowing one to see all the scaling conventions ]
The scaling a user establishes is saved in the rcfile.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This patch refactors the 'scale_tics' function to more
closely parallel uptime shown on the first line of the
summary area. The old logic has been preserved through
the header file's new #define SCALE_FORMER provision.
However, the former logic was actually a big disaster.
These are some potential problems with that old logic:
1. With respect to our time fields top no longer deals
solely with cpu time. So, the old limits of '68 weeks'
could possibly be insufficient to reflect those times.
2. Given the widths of top's new time fields, the code
never got beyond scaling to hours. For example, with a
ridiculously large span of 19 years, the scaled result
would then be shown as '167832h'. We never reached the
days ('6993d') or even the weeks ('999w') equivalents.
3. Similarly, with that 'TIME+' field and a large tics
value, results would then appear as 'MMMMMM:SS' rather
than the more meaningful 'HH:MM:SS' or days and hours.
So henceforth we will adopt these scaling conventions:
MMM:SS.hh ... minutes:seconds.hundredths
MMM:SS ...... minutes:seconds
HH,MM ....... hours,minutes
D+H ......... days+hours (with 'd' & 'h' suffixes)
D ........... days (with 'd' suffix)
W+D ......... weeks+days (with 'w' & 'd' suffixes)
W ........... weeks (with 'w' suffix)
Note that, unlike our former scaling logic, that 'MMM'
portion won't be allowed to grow unconditionally. It's
limited (arbitrarily?) to 360 total minutes (6 hours).
Additionally, the 'HH' guy will be limited to 96 hours
(4 days) while that 'D' limit was set at 14 (2 weeks).
Whenever a limit is hit, scaling will advance a level.
Reference(s):
. Feb, 2022 - added 'ELAPSED'
commit 9348d3b008
. Feb, 2022 - added 'STARTED'
commit 7647e96b0a
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
When the 'STARTED' field was added, in the message for
the commit referenced below, I explained why 'ELAPSED'
shouldn't be implemented though it might be preferred.
Well, after climbing out of my box to do a little more
thinking, I came up with the way to add that 'ELAPSED'
field while avoiding the possible performance penalty.
Just do not show what would change with every refresh!
If we do not show the seconds portion of a scaled tics
amount then the problem goes away. And this comes with
an additional benefit. The HH,MM (hours,minutes) style
then is readily compared with that system uptime shown
as HH:MM. The only difference is just the comma/colon.
[ assuming the top uptime/load average toggle was on ]
Reference(s):
. introduced 'start time' field
commit 7647e96b0a
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
When the 'STARTED' field was added, the width was made
the same as the 'TIME+' field. Thus, a full time could
be shown (which then included hundredths of a second).
That kind of granularity is totally unnecessary. After
all, this column is potentially confusing enough since
it is so counterintuitive. So, this commit will reduce
the width of the field with some help from scale_tics.
Henceforth it will not include those ol' centiseconds.
[ along the way let's expand the man document with a ]
[ a remainder about content representation & scaling ]
Reference(s):
. introduced 'start time' field
commit 7647e96b0a
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This patch will exploit some new library capabilities.
[ one will raise eyebrows, the other likely will not ]
A new 'STARTED' field was added which shows the time a
process started after system boot. As such the largest
interval represents the most recently started process.
This is the field that will likely be questioned since
it's somewhat counterintuitive. But were we to instead
use TIME_ELAPSED, the value will change with every top
refresh. This will defeat any PUFF macro optimization.
The new '%CUU' field will probably be better received.
It represents the cpu usage over the life of the task.
When a process was showing high %CPU usage, this field
can be used to determine if it's an anomaly or normal.
[ and as with %CPU, %CUU shows a '?' when running in ]
[ a namespace when /proc was mounted with subset=pid ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This patch was prompted by the merge request for pgrep
referenced below. In top's case, any performance gains
will be minimal since the now defunct strncpy was only
employed for termcap rebuilds after interacting with a
user (+ 1 other non-termcap related user interaction).
[ golly, strncpy always calls at least two functions ]
[ but usually calls a total of 3. on the other hand, ]
[ memccpy will only call a maximum of two functions. ]
And thanks to Baruch Siach for these strncpy insights.
Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/merge_requests/148
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This patch eliminates those warnings referenced below.
They are sometimes associated with an obscure #define.
We'll also corrrect one header file function prototype
so it will aggree with the actual function definition.
Reference(s):
top.c: In function 'adj_geometry':
top.c:1874:20: warning: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: 'int' and 'long unsigned int' [-Wsign-compare]
1874 | if (Screen_cols < DOUBLE_limit) Curwin->rc.double_up = 0;
| ^
top.c: In function 'zap_fieldstab':
top.c:2359:26: warning: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: 'int' and 'unsigned int' [-Wsign-compare]
2359 | if (wtab[EU_CPN].wmin < digits) {
| ^
top.c:2365:26: warning: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: 'int' and 'unsigned int' [-Wsign-compare]
2365 | if (wtab[EU_NMA].wmin < digits) {
| ^
top.c: In function 'keys_summary':
top.c:5128:45: warning: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: 'int' and 'long unsigned int' [-Wsign-compare]
5128 | if (w->rc.double_up && Screen_cols < DOUBLE_limit) {
| ^
top.c: In function 'sum_tics':
top.c:5605:22: warning: unused variable 'num_syst' [-Wunused-variable]
5605 | int ix, num_user, num_syst;
| ^~~~~~~~
top.c:5605:12: warning: unused variable 'num_user' [-Wunused-variable]
5605 | int ix, num_user, num_syst;
| ^~~~~~~~
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
When in forest view mode, that focus toggle ('F') is a
useful tool occasionally. But, if a focused parent has
enough cloned siblings to exceed screen rows, it could
be hard to remember that such a toggle remains active.
So, this patch will provide a subtle visual clue added
to the leftmost position in the COMMAND column. Now if
the focus toggle was active, regardless of total tasks
affected, the users will always know when it's active.
Reference(s):
. -7/24/21, introduced new focus toggle
commit 3e922e671d
. 09/23/21, ensure focused tasks stay focused
commit 69978e3650
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
In the commit referenced below, I fixed what I thought
was all the top 'truncation' warnings. For that commit
I had been using CFLAGS='-ggdb -Wall'. However, if one
uses just a vanilla './configure', then a hidden extra
warning will surface. This patch will finally kill it.
[ thanks a bunch gcc - we love this kind of behavior ]
Reference(s):
. 01/08/22, original warning fix
commit 44ca06f1a0
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
[ you wouldn't believe how many back-and-forths were ]
[ involved in Craig convincing me there were several ]
[ inconsistencies. i am so dense sometimes (often?). ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Over the years the summary_show function has increased
from around 77 lines of code & comments to its current
size of 243 lines. This is well beyond an ideal length
of available screen rows. So this patch will split it.
We'll take the cpu and memory duties and make separate
functions out of them. Of course, this will incur some
additional call overhead but, given current cpu/memory
logic, any such increase really becomes insignificant.
Now summary_show's a svelte 57 lines of code/comments.
[ this is like what was done to that do_key function ]
[ a decade ago except overhead of new function calls ]
[ plus table lookup was even less of a concern since ]
[ a human was involved, not normal iterative output. ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
In the patch referenced below the focus task logic was
improved to ensure that newly cloned tasks 'above' the
focused task did not force an effect like the up arrow
key. That commit also acknowledged that when some task
'above' ended, it *would* act like the down arrow key.
Well, with this commit a task ending 'above' a focused
task no longer distorts the focus. That's assuming the
new '#define FOCUS_HARD_Y' is specified plus the total
focused tasks does not exceed the current screen rows.
Thus, the manual scrolling with up and down arrow keys
is allowed when the total focused exceeds screen rows.
[ but keep in mind that when a focused task has been ]
[ hardened some otherwise useful toggles will not be ]
[ available. keystrokes like 'v' and even 'F' itself ]
[ can not be applied to another task with no scroll. ]
Reference(s):
. Sep, 2021 - 'focus' logic improved
commit 69978e3650
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This just updates the copyright dates in the documents
where I was already represented. Others are unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Rather than having those 3 separate background threads
enabled by default, we'll turn them off until somebody
chooses to activate them. That seems more appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
After the stage had been set in the previous patch, in
this patch we will actually implement those background
updates via 3 separate threads. The design was simple:
. the do-while loops have now been made truly infinite
. 2 semaphores per thread allow needed synchronization
. 1 semaphore will provide for each thread to sem_wait
. 1 semaphore will provide for display o/p to sem_wait
. and all 3 thread's program name was made descriptive
A complication was the potential for a signal directed
to one of our new threads. Rather than having a thread
try to deal with such signals, we pass a mask with all
signals blocked at pthread_create time. Thereafter any
subsequent signals are forwarded to the parent thread.
[ also sigprocmask was exchanged for pthread_sigmask ]
[ since warned about use "in multithreaded process". ]
[ plus we also modified each of those POSIX comments ]
[ about 2004 to agree with current signal-safety(7). ]
Sadly, after all this effort there were no performance
benefits to having separate threads. In fact there was
a measurable performance degradation when running with
ever smaller delay intervals. But even with a delay of
1/10 second the 'real' cost increase is only about 1%.
There is one way whereby any additional costs might be
eliminated (at least seemingly). One could introduce 2
separate sets of contexts for each of those 3 threads.
Then retrieval & display could be overlapped. However,
the resulting display wouldn't represent the real-time
results. Rather it would be stale by 1 delay interval.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit sets the stage for turning three functions
into code that can support a separate thread to update
their respective data while working in the background.
It involved relocating 1 function, renaming 2 routines
and adding parameters plus return addresses to each of
three functions. Those latter changes will be required
when issuing 'pthread_create' calls in the next patch.
The final step was organizing this code into what will
become the infinite do-while loop supporting a thread.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit is an example of what can happen when this
author is waiting around for the release of our newlib
& otherwise runs out of legitimate changes to be made.
[ on the other hand, such changes surely make us run ]
[ quite a bit more efficiently, if i am not mistaken ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
