Update NEWS with the version
Add library API change into NEWS
Update c:r:a for library to 7:0:1
This means the current and age are incremented, so old programs can
use new library but not vice-versa as they won't have the numa*
functions.
pidof will miss scripts that are run a certain way due to how
they appear in procfs. This is just a note to say it might miss
them.
References:
procps-ng/procps#17
Hurd doesn't have HOST_NAME_MAX, neither does Solaris.
An early fix just checked for this value and used 64 instead.
This change uses sysconf which is the correct method, possibly until
this compiles on some mis-behaving OS which doesn't have this value.
References:
commit e564ddcb01procps-ng/procps#54
By default pgrep/pkill should not kill processes in a namespace it is not
part of. If this is allowed, it allows callers to break namespaces they did
not expect to affect, requiring rewrite of all callers to fix.
So by default, we should work in the current namespace. If --ns 0 is
specified, they we look at all namespaces, and if any other pid is specified
we continue to look in only that namespace.
Signed-off-by: Debabrata Banerjee <dbanerje@akamai.com>
With a little luck, this should be the final tweak for
our support of extra wide characters. Currently, those
characters don't always display the '+' indicator when
they've been truncated. Now, it should always be seen.
[ plus it's done a tad more efficiently via snprintf ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The previous commit had one minor bug in it because the fields need
to be alphabetical and times comes after timeout.
Added NEWS item for this feature
Added another testsuite check for new flags in case they
disappear or go strange one day.
References:
commit 8a94ed6111
I frequency use pidof command with strace system call tracer.
strace can trace MULTIPLE processes specified with "-p $PID"
arguments like:
strace -p 1 -p 1030 -p 3043
Sometimes I want to do as following
strace -p $(pidof httpd)
However, above command line doesn't work because -p option
is needed for specifying a pid. pidof uses a whitespace as
a separator. For passing the output to strace, the separator
should be replaced with ' -p '.
This maybe not a special to my use case.
This commit introduces -S option that allows a user to specify a
separator the one wants.
$ ./pidof bash
./pidof bash
24624 18790 12786 11898 11546 10766 7654 5095
$ ./pidof -S ',' bash
./pidof -S ',' bash
24624,18790,12786,11898,11546,10766,7654,5095
$ ./pidof -S '-p ' bash
./pidof -S '-p ' bash
24624-p 18790-p 12786-p 11898-p 11546-p 10766-p 7654-p 5095
$ ./pidof -S ' -p ' bash
./pidof -S ' -p ' bash
24624 -p 18790 -p 12786 -p 11898 -p 11546 -p 10766 -p 7654 -p 5095
$ strace -p $(./pidof -S ' -p ' bash)
strace -p $(./pidof -S ' -p ' bash)
strace: Process 24624 attached
strace: Process 18790 attached
strace: Process 12786 attached
...
Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com>
The procio functions that were in the library have been
moved into sysctl. sysctl is not linked to libprocps in
newlib and none of the other procps binaries would need
to read/write large data to the procfs.
References:
be6b048a41
thereby use one allocated buffer for I/O which now might
be increased by the stdio function getline(3) on the
file if required.
Signed-off-by: Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
to be able to read and write large buffers below /proc.
The buffers and file offsets are handled dynamically
on the required buffer size at read, that is lseek(2)
is used to determine this size. Large buffers at
write are split at a delimeter into pieces and also
lseek(2) is used to write each of them.
Signed-off-by: Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
by using getline(3) to use a dynamically increased buffer
if required by the input found in sysctl configuration files.
Signed-off-by: Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
As it turns out, that Ukrainian 'demo' text supporting
the '=' command was 152 bytes long, up from an English
version of 80 bytes. Unfortunately, the buffer used to
format all such strings was insufficient at 128 bytes.
Depending on the width of one's terminal, some strange
result could be experienced when a multi-byte sequence
was truncated. So, this just makes that buffer bigger.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
After wrestling with extra wide characters, supporting
languages like zh_CN, sometimes default/minimum column
widths might force a truncation of translated headers.
So, this commit explores one way that such truncations
could be avoided. It is designed so as to have minimal
impact on existing code, ultimately affecting just one
function. But it's off by default via its own #define.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
When I recently added extra wide character support for
locales like zh_CN, I didn't worry about some overhead
associated with the new calls to 'mbtowc' & 'wcwidth'.
That's because such overhead was usually incurred with
user interactions, not a normal iterative top display.
There was, however, one area where this overhead would
impact the normal iterative top mode - that's with the
Summary display. So I peeked at the glibc source code.
As it turns out, the costs of executing those 'mbtowc'
and 'wcwidth' functions were not at all insignificant.
So, this patch will avoid them in the vast majority of
instances, while still enabling extra wide characters.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
There is (should be) no justification for changing the
width of the percentage columns (%CPU, %MEM) depending
on the BOOST_PERCNT #define. So this patch will ensure
that both columns are fixed at their former maximum 5.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
With the documentation update in the commit referenced
below, we should also account for such threads as they
will already be represented in the task/thread totals.
[ and do it in a way that might avoid future changes ]
Reference(s):
commit a238a687ce
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Back when top was refactored to support UTF-8 encoding
it was acknowledged that languages like zh_CN were not
supported. That was because a single 'character' might
require more than a single 'column' when it's printed.
Well I've now figured out how to accommodate languages
like that. My adaptation is represented in this patch.
[ and just in case someone wishes to avoid the extra ]
[ runtime costs, a #define OFF_XTRAWIDE is included. ]
Along the way, I've cleaned up some miscellaneous code
supporting the 'Inspect' feature so that the rightmost
screen column was always used rather than being blank.
[ interestingly, my xterm & urxvt terminal emulators ]
[ are able to split extra wide characters then print ]
[ 1/2 of such graphics in the last column. the gnome ]
[ terminal emulator does not duplicate such behavior ]
[ but prints 1 extra character in same width window. ]
Reference(s):
. Sep, 2017 - original utf8 support
commit 7ef38420a4
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
When the new approach for startup defaults was adopted
in the reference below, a file might be left open that
technically should be closed. This situation arises in
the unlikely event the #define RCFILE_NOERR is active.
Without that #define, the program will exit early thus
rendering the open file issue moot. However, even with
that #define there was no real harm with an open file.
It simply meant a 2nd FILE struct would have been used
when, or if, the rcfile was written via a 'W' command.
Anyway, this patch ensures such a file will be closed.
Reference(s):
. Dec, 2017 - /etc/topdefaultrc introduced
commit 3e6a208ae5
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The previous two patches updated free, but needed a tweak and the tests
also needed to be updated. I've hand-calculated the results using bc and
both the testsuite and bc results equal what free prints out.
References:
commit 9365be7633procps-ng/procps#45
The commit referenced below put a setvbuf() before checking what
fopen() returned. If the file could not be opened then the file
handle was NULL at setvbuf() crashed.
setvbuf() is now called after checking what fopen() returns and only
when it was successful.
References:
procps-ng/procps#76
commit 58ae084c27
Added note into sysctl.8 manpage about directory precedence.
This information may be important for users who create new config files at several destinations. Especially the information about files to be omitted in directories with lower priority shall be given.
Since the value of number_of_signals is known at compile time, we can
use a compile-time check instead. This also adds SIGLOST for the Hurd,
uses the correct signal counts for the Hurd and FreeBSD, and only gives
a compile-time warning when compiled on an unknown platform that it does
not know whether the number of signals is correct.
Those references below offer more detail regarding the
default startup changes beginning with version 3.3.10.
It is important to remember that all such changes were
supposed to impact only new users or users who had not
saved the personal config file (via that 'W' command).
However, I introduced a bug wherein the rcfile was not
fully honored. This gave the changes a bad reputation.
That bug was corrected in release 3.3.11 but the issue
of default startup options keeps resurfacing. And it's
clear there's no consensus on what should be included.
Our --disable-modern-top configure option is of little
help since it remains an all-or-nothing approach. What
we need is an answer offering unlimited customization.
So, this commit will provide distribution packagers or
system administrators with a much more flexible way to
set their own preferred startup default configuration.
A new rcfile is being introduced: '/etc/topdefaultrc',
whose format/content is the same as a personal rcfile.
Thus once a 'proper' enterprise configuration has been
established and saved via 'W', it can be copied to the
/etc/ directory. Thereafter, startup in the absence of
a saved rcfile will use that configuration as default.
Now if a distribution packager or system administrator
wishes to expose their users to some of top's advanced
capabilities they can do so gradually. Perhaps setting
up graph mode for summary area task and memory display
while retaining the %CPU sort could be tried. Or maybe
showing colors, but better customized for a particular
terminal emulator. Such possibilities are now endless.
[ in exploiting this new capability, i hope that the ]
[ other windows (alt display mode) aren't overlooked ]
Reference(s):
. Sep, 2014 - Not fully honoring rcfile bug discussed
https://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-saved-rcfile-bug
. Oct, 2014 - Attempt to defend new startup defaults
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153049
. Jul, 2015 - Forest vs. %CPU views discussion
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/6
. Oct, 2017 - Question the use of --disable-modern-top
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1499410
. Oct, 2017 - Forest vs. %CPU views discussion again
https://www.freelists.org/post/procps/Forest-mode-by-default-in-top-seems-a-bit-strange
. Dec, 2017 - Rehash of 3.3.10 startup defaults change
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/78
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
