A difference in behaviour between the sysvinit and procps pidof
was that the procps one would sometimes not find process that
the sysvinit one did.
The difference is that if a space is found in argv[0] then sysvinit
would look at cmd for a match. This isn't perfect and more of a
best guess but does often work.
procps pidof now follows the same "standard". The most obvious
difference is with kde based processes and incoming ssh connections
with sshd.
References:
GitLab issue #4https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/4https://github.com/limingth/sysvinit/blob/master/sysvinit-2.88dsf/src/killall5.c#L800
After experimenting with those 4.5 kernel enhancements
to /proc/<pid>/status, that newly added overview topic
'Memory Types' was found to be in need of some tweaks.
In addition, the 'DATA' description wasn't quite broad
enough since explicit private file mappings impact it.
( lastly, for the record, the 2nd commit referred to )
( below contained an incorrect reference that should )
( have been the original issue 21 commit. instead it )
( showed an invalid SHA-1 hash. i believe i have now )
( identified a flaw in my workflow that produced it. )
Reference(s):
. original patch responding to issue #21
commit e4bbd3ca1a
. subsequent patch with invalid commit ref
commit 5dcbcd00fe
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
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 f2a08cf16794ec6085bdecbaf8f7c2887cd4e87f
https://techtalk.intersec.com/2013/07/memory-part-1-memory-types/
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
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>
Cygwin build support
I have added some changes to make building in Cygwin possible. Please review the changes and let me know if there are any ways I may have done anything incorrectly.
strverscmp is included to satisfy a dependency in Cygwin.
Excluded utmp and prctl functions that are not supported currently.
See merge request !12
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>
Historically LFS mattered only to open/read large files. A few programs
here use open/seek, but not generally on files that are large. However,
LFS also applies to stat which procps does in a bunch of places -- some
filesystems have 64bit inodes and attempts to do a 32bit stat will throw
an error.
Enable transparent LFS everywhere to avoid this.
Multiple scanf()s use the GNU-permitted %Lu. This is not supported in
other libraries and isn't to the POSIX specification. The L modifier
is only used for floats in POSIX.
Replacing %Lu with %llu is the same for GNU libc (scanf(3) says as much)
but means other libraries will work fine.
Closes: #19
References:
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fscanf.html
pmap: Fix detail parsing on long mapping lines
If the mapping descriptor is longer than 128 chars, the last parsed
character won't be a newline even if the current buffer contains it a
bit further than that. The current code always interprets it as a short
fgets() read instead, and thus keeps calling fgets() until it gets a
newline, dropping valid lines and failing with the following error:
pmap: ERROR: inconsistent detail field in smaps file, line:
Rss: 212 kB
See merge request !10
There is a need in some utilities to have a way of accepting both
types of decimal points "." and ",". The only way seems to be to
rebuild strtod().
This new function will accept "123.456" and "123,456" as 123.456
and considers them the same number. It means we lose thousands
separator, but this is rarely used.
test scripts are added to check the function returns the proper
values. There was simpler predecessor that got stuck on negative
0 or -0.123 which these tests flushed out.
References:
If the mapping descriptor is longer than 128 chars, the last parsed
character won't be a newline even if the current buffer contains it a
bit further than that. The current code always interprets it as a short
fgets() read instead, and thus keeps calling fgets() until it gets a
newline, dropping valid lines and failing with the following error:
pmap: ERROR: inconsistent detail field in smaps file, line:
Rss: 212 kB
If SELINUX is enabled but the machine is using another MAC system
(like apparmor), ps will fallback to just parsing
"/proc/%d/attr/current", otherwise the label/context would not
be properly displayed in that case.
References:
https://bugs.debian.org/786956
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
Commit 99fa7f removed watch crashing from having the null ANSI
sequence. However it just ignored that sequence instead of fixing it.
This change correctly checks buf (not undefined endptr) and sends
the reset attribute if found.
Closes: #12
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>
We'll following the newlib <pids> approach to hashing:
. a 'PIDs at max depth:' portion of that UNREF_RPTHASH
enabled #define is now published only when the maximum
depth of hash table entry chains exceed depths of one.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
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>
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 ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
ps previously followed the Unix98 standard when it comes to
user-defined output, sometimes. This meant you could have
user output format with a header that included commas and
equals signs. It was dependent on if ps thought you wanted
sysv or bsd format and THAT was dependent on things in previous
options.
It was very confusing to a user because
ps p $$ -o pid=,comm=
gave you a two-column output but
ps -p $$ -o pid=,comm=
would give you a one column output with the header ",comm="
The -p versus p means (to ps) you want sysv or bsd parsing.
Unix98 standard or not, this is plainly just silly.
The commit removes any of the quirks Unix98 has with user defined
output. If you really wanted a ps header with commas in the output,
today isn't your day.
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
configure.ac: do not check for C++ compiler
We do not have any C++ code, so there is no point in checking for C++
tools in the configure script.
Signed-off-by: John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>
See merge request !8
The cgroup field while shown as a vector is a concatenated
string, so alot of the complexity of sorting and displaying
has gone.
This change simplifies the cgroup sorting and adds display
and sorting for the name attribute of the cgroup, if found.
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
A rather small fix to sort by cgroup. This sorting function
could be used for other string vector entries, but I can't
see why you want to for, say, environment.
Reference:
https://bugs.debian.org/692279
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
procps v3.3.11 will bring Library API 5:0:0
The reason for the change is the removal of some calls and
the addition of others. The newlib branch should hopefully
reset some of these changes to a much slower pace.
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
.version is created in the top_srdir which when building normally
doesn't present a problem. When make distcheck is run, the source
directory is made read-only and it fails with permission denied.
The version of misc/git-version-gen is old and is missing the
instruction to add .version to EXTRA_DIST. This commit does just
that.
make distcheck now passes.
References:
https://github.com/gagern/gnulib/blob/master/build-aux/git-version-genhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2011-08/msg00000.html
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
If the -s option was the first option on the command line, free
would report seconds argument failed. This only appeared on the
Debian free, not the one in git.
Closer examination revealed that if a valid float string is
given to strtof() it doesn't set errno to 0, but just leaves it
alone. As we are explicitly testing errno for overflows, this
means the previous errno change is picked up here.
The simple answer is to set errno to 0 before calling strtof().
References:
https://bugs.debian/org/733758https://enc.com.au/2015/08/08/be-careful-with-errno/
This patch just eliminates some eol whitespace, adds a
missing eof newline and contributes yet one additional
entry to the NEWS summary regarding saved top rcfiles.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
ps has two columns showing the same data which is elapsed time, just
the format is changed:
etimes - elapsed time in seconds
etime - elapsed time in DD-hh:mm:ss
ps used to only sort by etime but not etimes, by making etimes
and alias of etime for sorting both flags work.
References:
https://bugs.debian.org/794619
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
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>
