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Author SHA1 Message Date
Jim Warner
5ce94f9bb0 top: improved that #define PRETENDNOCAP implementation
This development (only) define can be used to turn top
into a simple text program, disabling termcap effects.
But input (at screen bottom) suffers from a line wrap.

So, this commit just makes the input prompt processing
a little more effective by adding one leading newline.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-06-17 21:44:29 +10:00
Jim Warner
61647f1b95 top: swat nasty obscure bug associated with numa nodes
When experimenting with two macro constants for stat.c
(#define STACKS_INCR & #define NEWOLD_INCR), a bug was
revealed in top, only surfacing if both were set to 1.

At those settings an absolute minimum number of stacks
would be allocated for CPUs & numa NODEs. This in turn
led top to overrun the lessor number of nodes since he
used the cpu index when accessing those numa stack(s).

What he should have been accessing was the cpu stacks.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-06-17 21:44:29 +10:00
Jim Warner
b09014a7b6 top: share the rcfile between master & newlib branches
Since the decision was made to also add that Linux-4.5
support (was only in this newlib branch) to our master
branch, a tweak to newlib's top is necessary. In order
to share the rcfile between them, any fields unique to
a branch must appear last in it's list of enumerators.

And the troublesome field in question above is CGNAME.

It doesn't matter if a unique field is on or off, only
that it, as a higher enum/char, appear after all other
shared fields. Otherwise one risks the 'corrupt' error
message from the top without that field or the display
of the wrong column in the top with that unique field.

[ and strictly speaking, the changes under top_nls.c ]
[ were technically not really necessary. however, we ]
[ choose to maintain strict ordering via enum value. ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-06-09 20:51:06 +10:00
Jim Warner
5f2570c384 misc: adapt pgms to pids_sort_order change, <PIDS> api
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-06-09 20:51:06 +10:00
Jim Warner
0196a4e350 top: just miscellaneous tweaks to code and/or comments
This patch represents the following minor adjustments:

. the official PROCPS_MEMINFO_VAL macro has become the
basis for our own abbreviated MEM_VAL derivative macro
just like was done for all the other newlib interfaces

. it felt like time to change those forest_?? function
names while maintaining their special relationships to
one another (alphabetic, with each 1 longer than prev)

. and some whitespace was altered and some lines added

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-06-07 21:04:43 +10:00
Jim Warner
911083bf76 ps+top: adapt for changes in results types, <PIDS> api
I've got nothing to add to the commit message but that
doesn't mean I won't produce perfectly justified text.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-05-16 19:58:20 +10:00
Jim Warner
56def1cbac misc: adapt others to changes in interface, <PIDS> api
I've got nothing to add to the commit message but that
doesn't mean I won't produce perfectly justified text.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-05-16 19:58:20 +10:00
Jim Warner
d94af0d07a misc: adapted other programs to changes, <MEMINFO> api
This patch just brings *most* other programs into line
with those changes recently made in the <meminfo> API.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-05-12 07:51:10 +10:00
Jim Warner
6c2b95872f top: adapted this program to those changes, <STAT> api
This guy is the real beneficiary of the new <stat> API
especially when it comes to the DELTA items which were
really the only values of interest (beyond some id's).

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-05-08 21:12:22 +10:00
Jim Warner
9cdbe5b80f top: miscellaneous accumulated tweaks of code/comments
This commit contains the following changes, which were
prompted by a coverity analysis which Craig initiated:

. comment typo predicting 'String not null terminated'
. eliminate 'Logically dead code' from insp_make_row()

And this tweak unrelated to coverity is also included:

. use more modern (recommended) approach for time call

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-05-08 21:12:22 +10:00
Jim Warner
f6d6d305e7 top: adapt source to changes with includes, <STAT> api
All other programs were able to accommodate the change
in name from readstat.h to stat.h without modification
because they were all using that procps.h header file.

Well now top can too (providing you ignore a comment).

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-04-26 22:27:16 +10:00
Jim Warner
714ea69c6d misc: adapt others to a changed identifier, <pids> API
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-04-19 20:38:18 +10:00
Jim Warner
9fb09268bb top: some minor tweaks against a few of Craig's tweaks
Rather than importing NORETURN & MALLOC, it feels more
natural to use the native gcc attribute for NORETURN &
eliminate the use of a questionable MALLOC altogether.

Reference(s):
commit ccb6ae8de1

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-04-17 09:12:02 +10:00
Jim Warner
5d0431891a top: extend 'zero suppression' to out-of-memory fields
Now that the conditional OOMEM_ENABLE has been removed
and more attention recently paid to the 2 oomem fields
it was revealed that Rc.zero_suppress didn't extend to
them. So this commit will just correct that oversight.

And while we're at it, we'll also extend zero suppress
to that NI (nice value) field, which already should've
had it. Plus we trade those namespaces custom suppress
logic for our now slightly enhanced make_num function.

Reference(s):
. removal of misguided OOMEM_ENABLE
commit 64238730fa
. zero suppression only recently added to namespaces
commit b2853ed117

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-04-17 09:12:02 +10:00
Jim Warner
41661e03dc top: normalize 2 former SUSE only out-of-memory fields
Now that the conditional OOMEM_ENABLE has been removed
and all users exposed to those 'out of memory' fields,
it's about time we added them to the top man document.

But before doing so, it's long past time that they are
normalized to at last remedy this kind of foolishness:

. excessive width on that oomem score itself (8 vs. 4)
. some potentially confusing names inherited from suse

Reference(s):
. removal of misguided OOMEM_ENABLE
commit 64238730fa

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-04-17 09:12:02 +10:00
Craig Small
ccb6ae8de1 library: cleanup of library includes
The includes used to define a lot of things a library include
should not. It was also a bit messy what was exposed in the library
and what was not.

get_pid_digits -> procps_pid_length and exported correctly

MALLOC attribute move into relevant .c files
NORETURN attribute moved to relevant .c, not used in library
PURE attribute removed, it wasn't used
KLONG/KLF/STRTOUKL were fixed for long, so now just use long

HIDDEN attribute removed. It was for 3 functions. The PROCPS_EXPORT
seems to do the same (opposite) thing.

likely/unlikely removed from most places, its highly debateable
this does anything useful as CPUs have gotten smarter about branches.

Re-arranged the includes, ALL external programs should just #include
<proc/procps.h> then proc/procps.h includes headers for files that
have exported functions. procps.h and the headers it includes should
not use items that are not exportable (e.g. hidden functions or
macros) they go in procps-private.h
2016-04-16 17:03:57 +10:00
Jim Warner
91ee02f076 top: man page now includes resident memory enhancement
Beginning with linux-4.5, the following new fields are
being added under that /proc/<pid>/status pseudo file:
 . RssAnon - size of resident anonymous memory
 . RssFile - size of resident file mappings
 . RssShmem - size of resident shared memory

This patch just represents the initial library and top
support, sharing a commit message with 2 more patches.

p.s. locked resident memory support was also added but
isn't directly related to the kernel 4.5 enhancements.

Reference(s):
commit 1f8e41d019

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-04-14 21:03:03 +10:00
Jim Warner
46458ab6b7 top: exploit new linux-4.5 resident memory enhancement
Beginning with linux-4.5, the following new fields are
being added under that /proc/<pid>/status pseudo file:
 . RssAnon - size of resident anonymous memory
 . RssFile - size of resident file mappings
 . RssShmem - size of resident shared memory

This patch just represents the initial library and top
support, sharing a commit message with 2 more patches.

p.s. locked resident memory support was also added but
isn't directly related to the kernel 4.5 enhancements.

Reference(s):
commit 1f8e41d019

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-04-14 21:03:03 +10:00
Jim Warner
1f8e41d019 top: add additional memory information to the man page
[ patch has been adapted expressly for newlib branch ]

In response to Issue #21, the commit referred to below
provided some much needed improvements and corrections
to topic `3a. DESCRIPTIONS of Fields' in the man page.
However, it assumed a reader possessed much background
knowledge that may not, in truth, actually be present.

So without, hopefully, insulting anyone's intelligence
this patch offers an expanded discussion of some terms
and concepts within a separate section under OVERVIEW.

[ plus it affords an opportunity to incorporate that ]
[ extremely useful table from Florent Bruneau's post ]

Reference(s):
commit 6a36bd7afd
https://techtalk.intersec.com/2013/07/memory-part-1-memory-types/

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-03-23 22:24:38 +11:00
Jim Warner
6a36bd7afd top: improve/correct several memory fields in man page
Due to quirks in kernel memory management plus limited
information available from /proc/<pid>/status & statm,
some of the top resident memory fields were capable of
exceeding available physical memory. So this commit is
a bit of a band-aid until the kernel has been changed.

Such a change appears to be on the horizon in the form
of three new fields to be added to /proc/<pid>/status.
While not preventing 'resident' memory from apparently
exceeding physical memory, the new fields will help to
clarify any such contingency, if/when we exploit them.

Reference(s):
. original post by Samuel Thibault
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/21
. informative memory analysis
https://techtalk.intersec.com/2013/07/memory-part-1-memory-types/
https://techtalk.intersec.com/2013/07/memory-part-2-understanding-process-memory/
. kernel changes to /proc/<pid>/status
commit 8cee852ec53fb530f10ccabf1596734209ae336b
commit eca56ff906bdd0239485e8b47154a6e73dd9a2f3

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-03-15 21:29:59 +11:00
Jim Warner
656a4980a4 top: tweaks to vertical scroll management & 'i' toggle
The commit referenced below claims to disable vertical
scrolling when idle tasks weren't being shown. However
it really addresses only a point in time when that 'i'
toggle is keyed. Left untouched were the up/down keys.

So this commit will simply finish the job of disabling
vertical scrolling whenever tasks which have used some
CPU are the only ones which are currently being shown.

Reference(s):
commit c07f6c5e6d

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-03-12 14:54:05 +11:00
Jim Warner
215a54f729 top: eliminate all superfluous cruft under the new API
This commit is just a cleanup of some extraneous cruft
left after the newlib migrations and summarized below:

. whack the 2nd line of what was an eliminated comment

. eliminated reference to NUM_NS and thus that need to
include the otherwise defunct 'readproc.h' header file

. reference to Frame_maxtask made properly generalized

. all former sort support #define's are now eliminated

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-03-12 14:53:36 +11:00
Jim Warner
4416863bdf top: fix data types for latest library representations
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-03-12 14:53:09 +11:00
Jim Warner
3a00c7e499 top: exploit <pids> enhancement for control group name
[ but stay tuned! there is a commit coming soon that ]
[ represents a rather major internal redesign, which ]
[ was prompted by the ps and top adaptation testing. ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-10-14 21:49:08 +11:00
Jim Warner
d53e98ff97 misc: adapt ps & top to procps_pids_stacks_sort rename
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-10-14 21:47:19 +11:00
Jim Warner
657ac2e0c7 top: extend '=' key to include active 'locate' request
It is documented behavior that when certain other keys
are active, sorts column highlighting will temporarily
be disabled. Among those keys is the 'L' (locate/find)
provision. The equals ('=') key can be used to restore
column highlighting by resetting other keys, except 1.

When a locate/find is active, the '=' key will have no
effect on 'x' column highlighting, which still remains
disabled. Further, when 'L' is active an 'x' keystroke
is processed changing the state of column highlighting
but without any visual clue (since it's yet disabled).

So this commit just extends the '=' key to embrace 'L'
processing resets, just like other highlight disabling
keys while avoiding 'x' state changes if approproiate.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-10-14 21:35:35 +11:00
Jim Warner
41e7510333 top: correct a flaw in the support for pids monitoring
Ever since top was adapted to the new <pids> interface
there has been a bug that would cause an abnormal exit
when the '-p' argument contained *no* valid pids. This
was never revealed until now since the QA folks tested
only with valid, existing pids. (bunch of morons, eh?)

And even though the program author is blameless he has
taken it upon himself to clean up after the QA jokers.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-10-09 21:35:28 +11:00
Jim Warner
468c15caa6 top: adapt for normailzed <pids> select/fill interface
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-10-05 21:50:23 +11:00
Jim Warner
683b3fd4f2 top: streamline the approach to tracking relative enum
Two separate entries under the Fieldstab were employed
to manage 'relative' enumerators under that new <pids>
interface. However, just a single entry could actually
serve both needs with a negative 'not selected' value.

So this commit just borrows the approach used with the
ps conversion where -1 is now representing unselected.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-10-05 21:30:53 +11:00
Jim Warner
f7fcb33652 top: eliminate an unused error message and its support
This commit just eliminates an error message no longer
needed under that newlib <pids> interface. Plus, a few
enumerators in the header weren't in alphabetic order.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-10-05 21:28:39 +11:00
Jim Warner
872be3a3a2 top: trade 'look_up_our_self' for a new API equivalent
With the advent of the 'fatal_proc_unmounted' function
in the <pids.h> API to ensure the /proc filesystem was
mounted, we will finally get rid of the last remaining
vestiges of the former libprocps <readproc> interface.

[ also play a little catch up and whack some headers ]
[ that are not necessary now, beyond that readproc.h ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-09-21 22:39:10 +10:00
Jim Warner
105c69164b top: update the man document reporting bugs suggestion
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-09-21 22:35:23 +10:00
Jim Warner
efcbbe93ea top: plug a rather big hole in the display fields dike
Whoa, guess what field got overlooked in that march to
the newlib conversion? It was the TTY guy. However, it
wasn't completely top's fault - that newlib must share
at least some responsibility, for only offering a num.

[ and while we're at it, let's touch up the man page ]
[ to agree with ol' newlib's current implementation. ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-09-09 21:22:44 +10:00
Jim Warner
bb04019510 top: utilize a library result struct for 'forest view'
When top was originally adapted to use that <pids> API,
the forest view support was redesigned since the proc_t
pad_3 byte could no longer be employed to hold a task's
nesting level. The redesign required additional arrays.

Now that the dust is settling on those initial efforts,
that PROCPS_PIDS_noop item was used as a substitute for
the old pad_3 along with a return to the former design.
But, while it proved adequate, the invariant nature for
that item required of top an extra initialization step.

So the library was coaxed into adding one more pid_item
(PROCPS_PIDS_extra) which will, unlike that 'noop' guy,
be reset with each reap. Everybody should be happy now.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-09-06 21:58:27 +10:00
Jim Warner
b2853ed117 top: do not co-mingle strings/numbers under namespaces
Craig's recent commit under that newlib branch dealing
with namespace support has prompted me to review top's
handling of those fields. Currently, when such a field
is zero, top displays a dash ('-'). This will mean the
justification toggles ('j/J') will behave incorrectly.

This patch simply allows the potential zero to display
or be suppressed with the already existing '0' toggle.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-09-06 21:57:09 +10:00
Jim Warner
f1bd82ff07 top: still more tidying up after <pids> implementation
A patch containing the following miscellaneous tweaks:

. remove a function that handled former library errors
[ that function should have gone bye-bye with 3.3.11 ]
[ when those 'wchan' provisions were much simplified ]

. make clearer a distinction between 'new' and 'reset'
[ use PROCPS_PIDS_noop when procps_pids_new() called ]
[ since at that point we are only establishing depth ]

Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/newlib-for-pgrep,1

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-09-03 22:37:54 +10:00
Jim Warner
1c597b58ef top: polish some things related to the pids adaptation
A patch containing the following miscellaneous tweaks:

. exploit (actually adapt) a pids.h provided VAL macro
. remove some obsolete, now unused, sort related items
. clarify the comment for specialized extractor macros

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-08-31 17:47:23 +10:00
Jim Warner
66cd99270d top: respond to library changes regarding self lookups
Just in case, make the old proc_t used in the before()
function static so valgrind doesn't get his panties in
a bunch over the fact the 'cmd' is now dynamic memory.

[ Shouldn't that function, or an equivalent, also be ]
[ part of our new library's implementation? However, ]
[ is it proper for a brand new library to abnormally ]
[ terminate a calling process with a stderr message? ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-08-26 22:42:02 +10:00
Jim Warner
64238730fa build, library & top: make OOMEM options unconditional
It was probably always wrong to have a variable length
proc_t structure. This patch takes all remaining oomem
former suse only options and makes them unconditional.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-08-23 21:08:18 +10:00
Jim Warner
f0c23e51ec top: misc tweaks to code/comments after pid adaptation
. didn't need a separate table for enum pids_reap_type
since top's 'Thread_mode' itself can be used directly.

. with pids support & the loss of forest_based(), that
forest_adds() function had to be renamed so the prolog
comment regarding naming convention was still honored.

. adapted to a library change to the pids_reap struct.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>

TOP, respond to library change to the pids_reap struct ...

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-08-23 21:08:18 +10:00
Jim Warner
f937ff8238 top: eliminated old kernel-2.4 & 2.5 support (man too)
The newlib informal cutoff for kernel support seems to
be around release 2.6. This commit eliminates any such
support for really old 2.4 and 2.5 kernels within top.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-08-23 21:05:07 +10:00
Jim Warner
77dc22b910 top: exploit those new library task/threads provisions
This patch adapts top to exploit the new <proc/pids.h>
interface. And it appears to have reduced top's weight
by a considerable margin. Gone were the sort callbacks
and manipulation of those library flags. Gosh, all top
needs to do now is track some enumerators of interest.

[ whoa, wait just a damn minute. it now appears some ]
[ that weight loss was solely the result of a theft. ]

[ jeeze, we turn our back for just a minute & newlib ]
[ up & steals our pids hashing logic for his history ]
[ needs. oh well, i guess life's just not that fair. ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-08-23 21:05:07 +10:00
Jim Warner
180bbb4032 top: fix unlikely edge case wherein all fields are off
While testing a newlib interface for pids acquisitions
I encountered some unexpected results if an idiot user
(me) turns off all displayable fields. So, this commit
ensures that the PID field will be shown as a minimum.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-08-23 21:01:37 +10:00
Jim Warner
b7fe46a815 top: avoid an unnecessary conversion for 'USED' column
When the USED column was introduced the proc_t.vm_swap
& proc_t.resident values were added together. However,
using 'resident' required an additional PROC_FILL flag
not to mention extra conversion of pages to kibibytes.

So now we'll use an already present vm_rss value which
removes any special handling for top's derived column.

And while we're at it we'll trade some more 'resident'
field uses with that more immediately usable 'vm_rss'.

[ this commit has been adapted for the newlib branch ]

Reference(s):
commit 709785e20b

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-08-23 21:01:21 +10:00
Jim Warner
479845d4f0 top: miscellaneous accumulated tweaks to code/comments
Jeeze, to correct spelling on one single word (incure)
you had to go and align the entire comments paragraph?

[ well, at least there's one other minor code change ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-08-23 21:00:34 +10:00
Jim Warner
cca63f2f66 top: eliminate 'user' from the inspection view headers
Since it's possible that euser name is not being shown
or the horizontal position had been scrolled past that
USER column, then part of those headers will be blank.

So it doesn't make sense to try and show the USER that
is associated with a process at all. Thus, this commit
simply removes the 'user' provision from both headers.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-08-23 21:00:15 +10:00
Jim Warner
aa7ff688db top: improve vertical scroll management for 'i' toggle
When a user is taking advantage of the scroll features
it is likely a scrolled vertical position is well past
the first displayable task. That is especially true of
top's forest view ('V') mode where those early systemd
attached processes are generally not very interesting.

As such, should the idle mode toggle ('i') be employed
a distorted display is almost guaranteed because tasks
that have used some cpu, and thus should be displayed,
have already been skipped by virtue of their position.

So this patch temporarily nullifies vertical scrolling
during the period when idle tasks are not being shown.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-07-24 06:51:40 +10:00
Jim Warner
2ceb4c31da library: readstat redesigned using 'stack' vs. 'chain'
In addition to that text shown below the line which is
common to several commit messages, this patch contains
several minor changes with lessor impact upon the API:

. A call to procps_stat_read_jiffs() has been added to
those jiffs functions carrying the 'fill' nomenclature
to parallel like functions in some of our other files.

. The #include header files are ordered alphabetically
now, with all those <sys/??> types separately grouped.

. Standard copyright boilerplate was added in .c file.

. The header file follows the conventions of indenting
(by 4 spaces) those parameters too lengthy for 1 line.

------------------------------------------------------
. The former 'chains' have now become 'stacks' without
the 'next' pointer in each result struct. The pointers
initially seemed to offer some flexibility with memory
allocations and benefits for the library access logic.
However, user access was always via displacement and a
a statically allocated chain was cumbersome to define.

. An enumerator ending in '_noop' will no longer serve
as a fencepost delimiter. Rather, it has become a much
more important and flexible user oriented tool. Adding
one or more such 'items' in any items list passed into
the library becomes the means of extending the 'stack'
to also include user (not just library) data. Any such
data is guaranteed to never be altered by the library.

. Anticipating PID support, where many different types
must be represented in a result structure, we'll adopt
a common naming standard. And, while not every results
structure currently needs to reflect disparate types a
union will be employed so the same dot qualifier ('.')
can be used consistently when accessing all such data.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-07-23 22:31:39 +10:00
Jim Warner
b8c688fb36 library: meminfo redesigned to use 'stack' vs. 'chain'
In addition to that text shown below the line which is
common to several commit messages, this patch contains
the following additional change without an API impact:

. The #include header files are ordered alphabetically
now, with all those <sys/??> types separately grouped.

------------------------------------------------------
. The former 'chains' have now become 'stacks' without
the 'next' pointer in each result struct. The pointers
initially seemed to offer some flexibility with memory
allocations and benefits for the library access logic.
However, user access was always via displacement and a
a statically allocated chain was cumbersome to define.

. An enumerator ending in '_noop' will no longer serve
as a fencepost delimiter. Rather, it has become a much
more important and flexible user oriented tool. Adding
one or more such 'items' in any items list passed into
the library becomes the means of extending the 'stack'
to also include user (not just library) data. Any such
data is guaranteed to never be altered by the library.

. Anticipating PID support, where many different types
must be represented in a result structure, we'll adopt
a common naming standard. And, while not every results
structure currently needs to reflect disparate types a
union will be employed so the same dot qualifier ('.')
can be used consistently when accessing all such data.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-07-23 22:31:24 +10:00
Jim Warner
4dea69067e top: exploit that meminfo dynamic chain allocation API
The commit msg summary says it all (well, not really).

The previous statically allocated results chain served
the top program perfectly in all its lib memory needs.
But, someone needs to try out the brand new interface.

Besides, there were a few other changes which I wanted
to make. And among them were the following miscellany:

. some names were changed, like 'context' became 'ctx'

. an unnecessary redundant library call was eliminated

. the placement of a few globals was made more logical
( thanks Craig for following the capitalization rule )

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2015-07-14 22:33:33 +10:00