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>
This commit represents the ps transition to the <pids>
'stacks' interface. While an effort to minimize impact
on existing code was made (as with a disguised proc_t)
the changes were still extensive. Along the way, a few
modifications beyond simply conversion were also made.
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Here's a brief overview the design of this conversion:
. The need to satisfy relative enum requirements could
not easily have been made table driven since any entry
in the format_array might require several <pids> items
in support. So I decided to allow every print function
to contribute its own relative enums once the decision
as to exactly what will be printed had been finalized.
. A similar approach was taken for sorting, since it's
possible to have sort keys that will not be displayed.
Here, I relied on the existing print extensions above.
. In summary, just prior to printing ps walks thru two
lists one time (the format_list & sort_list) and calls
each print function. That function does not print, but
sets its required enum if necessary. Later, when those
same functions are called repeatedly for every printed
line, the only overhead will be an if test and branch.
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Below is a summary of major changes beyond conversion:
. Sorts are now the responsibility of the library. And
therefore the total # of sortable fields substantially
increased without effort. Additionally, several quirky
fields remain as sortable, even though they can't ever
be printed(?). Surely that must make sense to someone.
[ while on this subject of sort, please do *not* try ]
[ to sort old ps on 'args'. or better yet, if you do ]
[ try that sort, see if you can determine his order, ]
[ without peeking at the source. that one hurts yet! ]
. All logic dealing with the old openproc flags and ps
struct members known as 'need' have been whacked since
that entire area was solely the new library's concern.
. Remaining malloc/calloc calls to stdlib were changed
to xmalloc/xcalloc from our own include/xalloc.h file.
None of the replaced calls ever checked return values.
[ be aware that 2 minor potential memory leaks exist ]
[ depending on command line arguments. no attempt is ]
[ made to free dynamically acquired format/sort node ]
[ structures upon return; a conscious design choice. ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Strings with lower caps & no trailing dots have greater change to
have multiple occurences, meaning less effort for translators, than
strings with them.
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
The catastrophic_failure function tries to make bug reporting useful
by telling in which line error occured, and drops core.
Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
This patch mostly reorganizes include files and eliminates
some useless trailing whitespace.
It also adopts the standard procps-ng unconditional approach
to nls initialization.
These xalloc functions are a private function for the library. If using
programs need them, then they should make their own error reporting or
use a common file.
There were numerous ps memory allocation inconsistencies.
Some were checked for failure and others were not.
The program was modified to utilize the library memory
rouines which are consistent in dealing with errors.
(a few changes simply removed trailing whitespace)
