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Jim Warner
9246b950c8 NEWS: acknowledged top's multi-byte support extensions
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-10-01 22:26:35 +11:00
Jim Warner
b8bfa17450 top: extend multi-byte support to 'Inspection' feature
The previous commit implemented multi-byte support for
the basic top user interaction and display provisions.
This commit completes multi-byte support by addressing
that 'Inspect Other Output' feature (the 'Y' command).

Few people probably exploit this very powerful feature
which allows the perusing of any file or piped output.
And even if nobody uses 'Y', someone will stumble over
it on the help screen and try it out. Assuming top was
not built with INSP_OFFDEMO defined, they'll end up on
the screen our translators have faithfully translated.

Without this patch, such a screen would display with a
bunch of 'unprintable' characters which will then show
in the standard (less-like) way as: '^A', '<C3>', etc.
In other words, those poor screens will be a big mess!

[ this program can even display an executable binary ]
[ while at that same time supporting Find/Find Next. ]
[ imagine, a file with no guarantee of real strings! ]
[ just try a Find using less with such binary files. ]

With this commit, the translated 'Y' demo screens will
now be properly shown, providing no invalid multi-byte
characters have been detected. Should that be the case
then they'll be displayed in that less-like way above.

And, if users go on to fully exploit this 'Y' command,
there is a good chance that a file or pipe might yield
output in a utf-8 multi-byte form. Should that be true
such output will thus be handled appropriately by top.

[ in many respects, this change was more challenging ]
[ than the basic support within the previous commit. ]
[ story of my life: least used = most effort needed. ]

Many thanks to our procps-ng translators which enabled
a proper test of these changed 'Y' command provisions:
. Vietnamese: Trần Ngọc Quân
. Polish: Jakub Bogusz
. German: Mario Blättermann
. French: Frédéric Marchal, Stéphane Aulery

[ and my sincerest apologies too, for my negligence! ]

Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/68

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-10-01 22:25:18 +11:00
Jim Warner
9773c56add top: refactored for correct multi-byte string handling
When this project first began implementing translation
support nearly 6 years ago, we overcame many 'gettext'
obstacles and limitations.  And, of course, there were
not any actual translations at the time so our testing
was quite limited plus, in many cases, only simulated.

None of that, however, can justify or excuse the total
lack of attention to top's approach to NLS, especially
since some actual translations have existed for years.

When the issue referenced below was raised, I suffered
immediate feelings of anxiety, doubt and pending doom.
This was mostly because top strives to avoid line wrap
at all costs and that did not bode well for multi-byte
translated strings, using several bytes per character.

I was also concerned over possible performance impact,
assuming it was even possible to properly handle utf8.

But, after wrestling with the problem for several days
those initial feelings have now been replaced by guilt
over any trouble I initially caused those translators.

One can only imagine how frustrating it must have been
after the translation effort to then see top display a
misaligned column header and fields management page or
truncated screens like those of help or color mapping.
------------------------------------------------------

Ok, with that off my chest let's review these changes,
now that top properly handles UTF8 multi-byte strings.

. Performance - virtually all of this newly added cost
for multi-byte support is incurred during interactions
with the user. So, performance is not really an issue.

The one occasion when performance is impacted is found
during 'summary_show()' processing, due to an addition
of one new call to 'utf8_delta()' in 'show_special()'.

. Extra Wide Characters - I have not yet and may never
figure out a way to support languages like zh_CN where
the characters can be wider than most other languages.

. Translated User Name - at some future point we could
implement translation of user names. But as the author
of the issue acknowledged such names are non-standard.
Thus task display still incurs no new multi-byte costs
beyond those already incurred in that escape.c module.

For raising the issue I extend my sincerest thanks to:
Göran Uddeborg

Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/68

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-10-01 22:25:18 +11:00
Jim Warner
07530a86ef top: correct a minor instance of wrong NLS macro usage
The 'N_fmt' and 'N_txt' macros are interchangeable and
just highlight the 2 str types found in Norm_nlstable.

The change in this patch (strictly cosmetic) was found
during the coding for what will be the next 2 commits.
It has not been squashed into either of those so as to
not muddy up the waters for what was a major refactor.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-10-01 22:25:18 +11:00
Jim Warner
28f405689c library: fixed miscellaneous whitespace/comment issues
. ensure whitespace exists between the code & comments
[ changing txt slightly keeps right margin alignment ]

. strive for more consistency with some comment styles
[ don't use C '/*' style where C++ '//' style exists ]

. removed the instance of double space in 1 assignment
[ still striving for consistency in whitespace usage ]

. fixed comment relating to number of 'derived fields'
[ the <meminfo> api recently added one new such enum ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-10-01 22:25:18 +11:00
Jim Warner
89775d5418 library: normalize stacks_extent struct layout, <PIDS>
This patch just rearranges 1 item in the stacks_extent
struct to make it equivalent to all the other modules.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-10-01 22:25:18 +11:00
Jim Warner
daf7c86c01 library: add delta values with swap too, <meminfo> api
As an oversight, delta values for SWAP amounts weren't
included in the <meminfo> API. Since any runtime costs
of including them only amount to slightly more storage
this commit will simply correct the earlier oversight.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-10-01 22:25:18 +11:00
Craig Small
ccbd818cb4 vmstat: Fix alignment for disk partition format
The disk partition format translation hint, the actual text and the
printf statements were all diagreeing with each other. This meant
the disk partition output from vmstat was a mess.

Now all the titles and values line up and everything is right-aligned
which looks better than some half-hearted attempt at center-aligned
for titles and right-aligned for values.

Thanks to @goeran for the heads-up in #69
2017-09-25 09:24:42 +10:00
Kyle Laker
3651280194 whattime: Show 0 minutes in pretty output
When supplying the -p command to uptime, it does not display any
sections where the value is less than 1; however, after a reboot, this
causes the command to just output "up". Showing 0 minutes when the
system has been up for less than a minute makes it clear a reboot just
occurred.

References:
 commit 325d68b7c3

Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
2017-09-25 08:36:51 +10:00
Werner Fink
c22fc57276 Avoid confusing messages caused by EIO on reading
/proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/stable_secret if those are not set yet.

Signed-off-by: Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
2017-08-20 09:22:58 +10:00
Werner Fink
8af3db9274 Increase standard I/O buffer a lot to be able to
read huge informations at once as otherwise all files below
/proc/sys, not using the seq_file API at the kernel side,
will return EOF on a second read.

Signed-off-by: Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
2017-08-20 09:22:41 +10:00
Tobias Stoeckmann
e6e228e7f4 Fix out of boundary write on 1x1 terminals
If a terminal is merely 1x1 in size, setsize() will write a nul byte in
front of the allocated memory, which is an out of boundary write.
2017-08-19 23:10:26 +10:00
Craig Small
d8fb86dbc5 Port of merge request 49 to newlib
Wayne Porter made !49 which added Cygwin support to the master branch
This is the port of those changes to newlib
2017-08-19 23:05:22 +10:00
Jim Warner
aab30a0aad top: protect against the anomalous 'Mem' graph display
Until this patch, top falsely assumed that there would
always be some (small) amount of physical memory after
subtracting 'used' and 'available' from the total. But
as the issue referenced below attests, a sum of 'used'
and 'available' might exceed that total memory amount.

I'm not sure if this is a problem with our calculation
of the 'used' amount, a flaw in the kernel 'available'
algorithms or some other reason I cannot even imagine.

Anyway, this patch protects against such a contingency
through the following single line addition of new code
. if (pct_used + pct_misc > 100.0 || pct_misc < 0) ...

The check for less than zero is not actually necessary
as long as the source numbers remain unsigned. However
should they ever become signed, we'll have protection.

[ Most of the changes in this commit simply separate ]
[ a variable's definition from its associated logic. ]

Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/64

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-08-19 20:52:41 +10:00
Jim Warner
86a7d65c8d top: address a Debian wishlist NLS man page suggestion
Reference(s):
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=865689

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-08-19 20:52:41 +10:00
Jim Warner
4da0030544 NEWS: add issue and bugzilla references where possible
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-08-19 20:52:41 +10:00
Jan Rybar
62da5ee3ce top: refresh interval accepts non-locale decimal value
For the past 3 years top has fully honored that locale
LC_NUMERIC setting which impacts his refresh interval.
For the past nearly 5 years top has saved that refresh
value in a locale independent form in his config file.

With this commit we'll intentionally break top so that
a comma or period will be accepted for the radix point
regardless of what that LC_NUMERIC may have suggested.

The current locale LC_NUMERIC will, however, determine
how the delay interval is displayed in the 'd' prompt.

[ This position is better than the approach employed ]
[ by those coreutils 'sleep' and 'timeout' programs. ]
[ Both claim to permit floating point arguments. But ]
[ neither one will accept the comma separator should ]
[ the locale be a country that in fact uses a comma. ]

Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/merge_requests/50

Prototyped by: Jan Rybar <jrybar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-08-19 20:46:39 +10:00
Jim Warner
bb19ac0926 top: at program startup, avoid a little extra overhead
There was a time when the PROCPS_PIDS_noop represented
the highest valued enumerator. Therefore if one wished
to prime an array consisting of pids_result structures
with this specific item a loop would have been needed.

Now that this enum is the first one, with the value of
zero, we can avoid avoid such a loop with just calloc.

But just in case, we'll use an 'if' to guarantee zero.

[ and the nice thing is, since the value is known at ]
[ compile time, that 'if' test plus subordinate loop ]
[ can be discarded by the compiler as long as it's 0 ]

Reference(s):
. <pids> introduced (PIDS_noop > 0)
commit 7e6a371d8a
. top employs PIDS_noop at 'new' time
commit f1bd82ff07
. <pids> relocated PIDS_noop (PIDS_noop == 0)
commit e7585992d9

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-08-19 20:46:39 +10:00
Jim Warner
8c624ca9dc top: fixing command line parsing errors is now a habit
Ok, I admit it. I'm now tired of cleaning up after me.

This is the 3rd related tweak after that '-1' argument
was originally introduced. And with this patch we will
once again properly honor the '-o' and '-u|U' switches
without a need to be followed by an additional switch.

[ one can follow my unfortunate trail of alterations ]
[ beginning with my most recent fix referenced below ]

Reference(s):
commit e3bad0687d

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-07-04 20:40:53 +10:00
Jim Warner
876aff8584 library: correct the #define FALSE_THREADS, <PIDS> api
Awhile back, that former QUICK_THREADS #define evolved
into the development (only) FALSE_THREADS which can be
used to ensure a 'duplicate ENUM' convention is output
when certain string fields can't be easily duplicated.

Unfortunately, that original implementation was marred
with zeros being displayed for /proc/$$/meminfo fields
in all the child threads for a multi-threaded process.

So this commit corrects that zero memory field buglet.

Reference(s):
. QUICK_THREADS becomes FALSE_THREADS
commit c546d9dd44

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-07-04 20:40:53 +10:00
Jim Warner
105de6264c misc: adapt 3 programs to some enum changes, <meminfo>
That preceding commit corrected a little mismanagement
regarding the MEMINFO_MEM_CACHED enumerator, which was
used in the following programs: free, top plus vmstat.

This patch simply adapts those programs to use the new
MEMINFO_MEM_CACHED_ALL enumerator, which reflects both
the 'Cached' plus 'SReclaimable' values they expected.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-06-04 21:36:23 +10:00
Jim Warner
dbc880edd3 library: correct 'used' memory calculations, <meminfo>
The <meminfo> module attempted to duplicate the former
sysinfo memory calculations wherein 'SReclaimable' was
added to 'Cached' for the 'kb_main_cached' equivalent.

But, this original approach was wrong for two reasons.

1. The addition occurred too late to impact the 'USED'
calculation which could then cause an underflow in the
top memory display if 'SReclaimable' was heavily used.

2. In changing the actual /proc/meminfo 'Cached' value
it meant that users could not rely on that proc(5) man
page when interpreting the MEMINFO_MEM_CACHED results.

So this commit adds a new enumerator for the inclusive
cached amount plus repositions the calculation so that
a MEMINFO_MEM_USED result will exclude 'SReclaimable'.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-06-04 21:36:23 +10:00
Jim Warner
e3bad0687d top: correct functioning of the '-p' command line args
With the introduction of a new '1' command line toggle
I have gone and broken a provision of the '-p' command
line switch (pids monitoring). Multiple pids could not
be specified through the use of comma delimited lists.

Thus, this commit simply corrects that newly added bug
which was born in the 'adjustment' commit shown below.

Reference(s):
. adjustment to '-1' implementation
commit 3e5c950a5e

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-06-04 21:36:23 +10:00
Werner Fink
e04394ef24 sysctl: Print lines longer than 1024 chars
as well do not open /proc/sys files if only the names of the
system control names of the kernel parameters should be shown.
Avoid leaking tmpname in case of a pattern mismatch.

Signed-off-by: Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
2017-05-22 22:34:29 +10:00
Craig Small
aa41c309dd kill: -l space between name parses correctly
This was supposed to be just a cherry-pick of the referenced
commit. However there were two problems:
 1. kill code was moved out to its own file
 2. strtosig() had a latent bug where signal numbers were not
 converted to names.

Original note:
kill -lHUP would work correctly, but kill -l HUP would not.

The list option in kill was hit by a quirk of getopt_long where an
option with an optional argument would not attempt to get the argument
beyond the space, even though a mandatory argument would do that.

The fix is a kludge to scan to the next argument and if it looks
like something we can use, use it. Lucky for us, the list option is
one where parsing can stop immediately.

Thanks to Brian Vandenberg for the way forward.

References:
 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1052746/getopt-does-not-parse-optional-arguments-to-parameters
 https://bugs.debian.org/854407
 commit 537cea324b121f54744369425332c256aa84a181
2017-05-22 22:15:59 +10:00
Jim Warner
3ad417c0c0 top: address the argument parsing quirk involving '-h'
There exists the possibility that a 'putp' call can be
issued before the 'setupterm' invocation has occurred,
as is reflected in a bugzilla report referenced below.

Strangely, such a SEGV isn't always triggered as logic
would suggest it ought to be. I experienced a fault in
these environments with the associated curses version:
. archlinux, procps-ng 3.3.12, ncurses 6.0.20170429
. fedora-25, procps-ng 3.3.10, ncurses 6.0.20160709
. opensuse-42.2, procps-ng 3.3.9, ncurses 5.9.20140201
. gentoo, procps-ng 3.3.12, ncurses 6.0.20150808
. slackw-14.2, procps-ng 3.3.12, ncurses 6.0.20160910

Whereas under these environments there was no problem:
. ubuntu-17.04, procps-ng 3.3.12, ncurses 6.0.20160625
. debian-test, procps-ng 3.3.12, ncurses 6.0.20161126
. mageia-5.1, procps-ng 3.3.9, ncurses 5.9.20140323

[ as an aside, the expected result in the bug report ]
[ is incorrect and should mention the '1' parameter. ]

[ however, until release 3.3.13 when the '1' becomes ]
[ a valid switch, numbers are not detected when used ]
[ with any switch which doesn't require an argument. ]

[ you're welcome to treat that as a separate bugglet ]

Reference(s):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1450429

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-05-22 21:38:16 +10:00
Jim Warner
c0ce5793e8 NEWS: update/alphabetize enhancements for next release
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-05-22 21:38:10 +10:00
Jim Warner
fd95a61652 ps: have now added the NUMA node field display support
Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/58

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-05-22 21:38:10 +10:00
Jim Warner
6002603e2c top: now includes that NUMA node field display support
Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/58

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-05-22 21:38:10 +10:00
Jim Warner
3d39e4fd88 library: set stage for NUMA node field display support
In response to that suggestion referenced below, these
changes allow display of task/thread level NUMA nodes.

Currently, only the 'top' program offers any NUMA type
support and it is limited to the Summary Area display.
With this commit both the 'top' and 'ps' programs will
be able to display NUMA nodes associated with threads.

Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/58

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-05-22 21:38:10 +10:00
Jim Warner
618a813baa misc: eliminate all those remaining gcc -Wall warnings
Reference(s):
proc/readproc.c: In function 'statm2proc'
proc/readproc.c:600:9: warning: variable 'num' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]

proc/stat.c: In function 'stat_derive_unique':
proc/stat.c:429:1: warning: no return statement in function returning non-void [-Wreturn-type]

ps/parser.c: In function 'arg_type':
ps/parser.c:1098:3: warning: this 'if' clause does not guard... [-Wmisleading-indentation]
ps/parser.c:1099:34: note: ...this statement, but the latter is misleadingly indented as if it is guarded by the 'if'

lib/signals.c: In function 'strtosig':
lib/signals.c:243:9: warning: this 'if' clause does not guard... [-Wmisleading-indentation]
lib/signals.c:245:13: note: ...this statement, but the latter is misleadingly indented as if it is guarded by the 'if'

slabtop.c: In function 'print_summary':
slabtop.c:223:29: warning: unused variable 'stats' [-Wunused-variable]

watch.c: In function 'process_ansi':
watch.c:232:5: warning: this 'if' clause does not guard... [-Wmisleading-indentation]
watch.c:235:2: note: ...this statement, but the latter is misleadingly indented as if it is guarded by the 'if'

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-05-22 21:38:10 +10:00
Jim Warner
a235c9b0be top: correct man page alphabetical order for -E switch
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-05-22 21:38:10 +10:00
Jim Warner
6644b1a646 library: eliminate a redundant conditional, <PIDS> api
library: eliminate a single redundant conditional test

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-05-22 21:38:10 +10:00
Jim Warner
253ac7f709 library: improve <STAT> cpus offline/online management
When those standardized 'derived' TIC enumerators were
introduced, a problem with potential DELTA distortions
was also introduced when toggling cpus offline/online.

It has always been true that the 1st (summary) line in
/proc/stat will experience a decrease in total tics if
a new cpu is brought online. Such decreases are mostly
due to reductions in 'idle' and 'iowait' tics. Exactly
why such a counterintuitive phenomenon should occur is
a mystery, but this has been acknowledged in proc.txt.

A separate potential distortion arises with individual
cpus. And, here it extends to both bringing processors
online plus taking them offline too. When that happens
the order of the cpus array tracking is upset, placing
the 'new' values in some other processor's array slot.
But even if we were to occupy the same slot, the issue
regarding reductions in 'idle' & 'iowait' still apply.

In all cases, when a DELTA field was found to be minus
it was forced to zero via the 'TICsetH' macro. However
the 'derived' calculations are subject to new forms of
distortion with their own DELTA values. For example we
could find DELTA_SUM_USER + DELTA_SUM_SYSTEM exceeding
DELTA_SUM_TOTAL, an illogical/inappropriate condition.

So this commit moves former protections for individual
cpus to the stat_derive_unique() function and modifies
it to also extend protections to the 'derived' values.
In the process we now protect the cpu 'summary' counts
which were unfortunately previously overlooked (oops).

Reference(s):
. 'derived' types introduced
commit 2c86c4984a
2017-03-29 22:10:56 +11:00
Jim Warner
3e5c950a5e top: make command line switch parsing even more robust
This program has always tried to maintain an extermely
robust command line parsing procedure, far more robust
that what's available with the getopt stuff. But, with
the introduction of our first numeric switch it should
have been made even more robust than, in fact, it was.

This commit will now accomplish such a desirable goal.

Reference(s):
. added '1' command line switch
commit 5e708c5db7

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-03-29 22:10:33 +11:00
Jim Warner
810e1d38ab top: just update all of the copyright dates in sources
[ this patch has been adapted from the master branch ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-03-16 22:08:07 +11:00
Jim Warner
835ee677d0 top: by default, show cmd line vs. cmd name at startup
All of top's display was designed to fit into an 80x24
terminal. This includes the help screens plus both the
Summary and Task Areas, assuming no saved config file.

With release 3.3.10, the startup defaults were changed
assuming ./configure --disable-modern-top wasn't used.
This was done in the hope of introducing some users to
unknown capabilities such as colors, forest view, etc.

The purpose of this commit is to coax a few more users
into possibly exploring another capability: scrolling.
We do so by tweaking the default startup display so as
to show full command lines. Now, when things no longer
fit in 80x24, horizontal scrolling might be exploited.

[ of course, this can be reversed with the -c switch ]

[ this patch has been adapted from the master branch ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-03-16 22:08:07 +11:00
Jim Warner
5e708c5db7 top: provide -1 command line switch as 'Cpu(s)' toggle
If built without ./configure --disable-modern-top, the
program displays each cpu individually providing there
is sufficient vertical screen real estate. For massive
SMP environments this will necessitate use of a config
file where the cpu summary toggle ('1') could be saved
via the 'W' command. But, an rcfile may not be viable.

So this commit introduces a '1' command line switch to
emulate exactly the effects of the interactive toggle.

And since it is our first numeric switch some existing
parsing logic had to be changed slightly. Such changes
are, in truth, an improvement. For example, instead of
seeing "inappropriate '2'" with ./top -2 we'll now see
the vastly more appropriate error "unknown option '2'.

References(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/55

[ this patch has been adapted from the master branch ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-03-16 22:08:07 +11:00
Jim Warner
b2bd65407a top: provide -E command line switch for memory scaling
In their 3.2.7 version of top, Redhat introduced an -M
switch to automatically scale Summary Area memory data
to avoid truncation (and the resulting '+' indicator).

The procps-ng top does not employ suffixes with memory
data nor does it allow for different scaling with each
separate value. Rather, scaling appears at line start.

If built without ./configure --disable-modern-top, the
Summary Area memory will be scaled at GiB which should
lessen chance of truncation. Otherwise KiB was used to
reflect such memory, increasing the truncation chance.

And while 'W' can be used to preserve some appropriate
scaling value, there are arguments against such rcfile
approaches as cited in the issue and bug report below.

So this commit will bump the Summary Area memory scale
factor from KiB to MiB when using --disable-modern-top
as a concession to that Redhat bug report noted below.

And it also introduces a new command line switch which
can force any desired scaling regardless of the rcfile
or which ./configure option might have been specified.

[ for top's help text we'll show 'E' as if it were a ]
[ switch without arguments in order to keep the help ]
[ text displayable without wrap in an 80x24 terminal ]

[ the man page, however, will show all k-e arguments ]

Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/53
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1034466

[ this patch has been adapted from the master branch ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-03-16 22:08:07 +11:00
Jim Warner
f318be467b top: show fewer decimal places for memory (by default)
After much reflection I've come to the conclusion that
displaying 3 decimal places (usually) when memory data
had been scaled is no longer optimal with today's ever
increasing amounts. And given that not all task memory
fields are the same widths, inconsistencies can easily
arise as illustrated and discussed in the issue below.

Instead of unilaterally reducing the number of decimal
places, this commit will sneak in such a change via an
existing configure option that was very likely unused.

The former 'disable-wide-memory' option has now become
'enable-wide-memory', which can be used if the current
behavior (3 decimal places) is preferred. Without that
option, whenever memory is scaled beyond KiB, just one
decimal place will be shown in Summary and Task areas.

And Task area field width will no longer be changed by
this revised configure option. Instead, all such field
widths will now be fixed at the former maximum values.

Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/50

[ this patch has been adapted from the master branch ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-03-16 22:08:07 +11:00
Jim Warner
7468e229e8 top: correct alphabetic ordering with some enumerators
[ this patch has been adapted from the master branch ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-03-16 22:08:07 +11:00
Craig Small
ff05573f0d pkill: Return 0 if successfully killed process
Original report:
When trying kill a process with insufficient privileges (see blow),
pkill displays the error message “... failed: Operation not permitted”,
but returns 0. Surely it should return 3?

$ pkill syslogd ; echo $?
pkill: killing pid 373 failed: Operation not permitted
0

Return value 0 means one of more things matched. For a pgrep (which
shares code with pkill) this makes sense, there was a match. It seems
wrong for pkill to return 0 when it in fact could not do what you told
it to.  However return value 3 means a fatal error and it's not fatal.

Looking at other programs when trying to kill things it cannot kill.
shell kill returns 1, procps kill returns 1, killall returns 1, skill
returns 0 (and says it was successful!, ah well poor old skill)

The consensus seems to be that you return 1 if you cannot kill it, even
if you found it. In other words the return value for both not found and
not able to kill it is the same.

pkill only returns 0 if something was killed. This means we found a
match AND the kill() system call worked too.

References:
 https://bugs.debian.org/852758

Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
2017-02-04 12:00:24 +11:00
Craig Small
1f094f51f1 NEWS: Very minor typo fixed
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
2017-02-04 11:07:21 +11:00
Jim Warner
a2d2b89ce0 NEWS: updated with the two most recent program changes
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-02-04 11:07:06 +11:00
Jim Warner
a81a74a1df top: adapt the master branch XDG specification support
This patch adapts a master branch commit to our newlib
branch. Shown below was that original commit msg text.

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top: Add unobtrusive XDG support

By default the file HOME/.toprc will be prefered.  This ensures there
should be minimal breakage even if this file is later created by some
other means.  Otherwise we will follow the new behaviour described by
the XDG Base Directory Specification:

If the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable is available we will attempt
to use this as XDG_CONFIG_HOME/procps/toprc otherwise we will fall-back
to HOME/.config/procps/toprc instead.

Signed-off-by: Earnestly <zibeon@gmail.com>
------------------------------------------------------

Reference(s):
. master branch original
commit 0a0f7d60e309c13c8a399bc2187bed6e3e156b43
. discussion thread
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/merge_requests/38

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-02-04 11:07:06 +11:00
Jan Rybar
9252a04eae pgrep: warning about 15+ chars name only if zero matches found
This avoids situations where longer regex which matches short-named proc
is used. Test for pgrep updated.

This is the newlib update of 5d12be1b7e8cc690a4d8778754aae5db4c07db2b
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
2017-01-26 16:52:23 +11:00
Craig Small
2598e9f2ce documentation: Update pids manual pages
Updated the full suite of manual pages for the procps_pids_*
functions. The only one missing is procps_pids_get which
may not be required.
2017-01-05 09:44:04 +11:00
Jim Warner
ea930f6f9e library <stat>: input file buffer size must be dynamic
Since its introduction, our evolved /proc/stat API has
relied on a static buffer of 8192 bytes. This approach
is probably Ok for other /proc files but it would only
accommodate around 100 processors. If such a threshold
were exceeded then this interface could never succeed.

Now days 100 processors doesn't seem at all excessive.

So this commit trades that static buffer for a dynamic
self-tuning one. And since so much former top CPU code
was already rolled into this module, we just stole the
already proven top dynamic buffer management code too.

[ this also meant switching low level unbuffered I/O ]
[ calls to standard library buffered I/O calls. that ]
[ is exactly what <slabinfo> and <diskstats> employ. ]

Reference(s):
. 1st gen readstat introduction
commit a410e236ab

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-01-05 06:48:38 +11:00
Jim Warner
282ee362f0 library <stat>: improve response to cpu offline/online
With the addition of those new derived SUM values, any
CPUs taken offline or brought online would distort the
historical (delta) results.  So this patch just forces
a history reset when such transitions are encountered.

Reference(s):
. derived SUM provisions introduced
commit 2c86c4984a

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-01-05 06:48:38 +11:00
Jim Warner
f82ac70e13 library <slabinfo>: make read function name consistent
For each of those interfaces employing a priming read,
all the other 'read' functions begin with the module's
name except this guy which began with 'read_slabinfo'.

Now, they'll all begin with their module name then end
the same with a '_read_failed' boolean hinting suffix.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-01-05 06:48:38 +11:00