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Jim Warner
42f0a341ba top: fix 'iokey()' flaw preventing proper translations
As it turns out, the very first entry in the 'iokey()'
tinfo_tab was preventing the proper translation of the
simulated PgUp/PgDn keys (ctrl+meta+k/j). Ignoring the
tortured history behind the most recent change to that
entry, this patch restores the previous value and once
again properly translates these particular keystrokes.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2018-06-13 22:11:28 +10:00
Jim Warner
cf057d2fe5 top: provide the means to exploit a 256-color terminal
With the Qualys security audit, we began to harden our
treatment of the top rcfile. In particular, the values
read were checked so as to prevent some malicious user
from editing it in order to achieve an evil objective.

However when it came to colors I was surprised to find
that at least one user edited the rcfile for 256-color
support. Unfortunately, our new checks prevented this.

So this commit will provide the means to exploit those
extra colors with no need to manually edit the rcfile.

Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/96

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2018-06-07 21:35:59 +10:00
Jim Warner
fe23360520 top: sanitized some potentially corrupt 'Inspect' data
This guards against rcfile 'Inspect' entries which may
include non-printable characters. While this shouldn't
occur, we have no real control over those crazy users.

[ and, while such data can't be used maliciously, it ]
[ does adversely impact such a user's screen display ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2018-05-31 20:28:32 +10:00
Jim Warner
434530a038 top: prevent buffer overruns in 'inspection_utility()'
When a Qualys patch was reverted as being unwarranted,
1 specific problem their patch had, in fact, prevented
was re-introduced. This patch corrects that oversight.

Reference(s):
. qualys patch revert
commit c502678715

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2018-05-31 20:28:32 +10:00
Jim Warner
a42742b0df top: add another field sanity check in 'config_file()'
Until the Qualys security audit I had never considered
it a possibility that some malicious person might edit
the top config file to achieve some nefarious results.

And while the Qualys approach tended to concentrate on
the symptoms from such an effort, subsequent revisions
more properly concentrated on startup and that rcfile.

This commit completes those efforts with 1 more field.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2018-05-31 20:28:32 +10:00
Jim Warner
cc5c9e6c1e top: don't mess with groff line length in man document
I've long since forgotten why the attempt to influence
groff line lengths was made. However, I did receive an
email regarding problems formatting postscript output.

Hopefully this patch will eliminate any such problems.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2018-05-31 20:28:32 +10:00
Jim Warner
c699f2e26d top: just respond to the increased command name length
The command name for running tasks is displayed by top
in a variable length field, so the increase from 16 to
64 bytes was not a problem. However, there's one place
where top is sensitive to length - insp_view_choice().

So, this patch just bumps a buffer used to display it.

Reference(s):
. increased 'comm' length
commit 2cfdbbe897

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2018-05-19 21:48:13 +10:00
Jim Warner
607edc2064 top: eliminate a couple of warnings of -Wunused-result
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2018-05-19 21:47:58 +10:00
Jim Warner
de807a639f top: ensure sane rcfile values for the remaining stuff
This will protect some remaining rcfile variables from
a possible manual editing of top's configuration file.

[ and correct two #error related boo-boos introduced ]
[ with the system default rcfile in the commit shown ]

Reference(s):
. introduced /etc/topdefaultrc
commit 3e6a208ae5

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2018-05-19 21:47:02 +10:00
Jim Warner
129b7e2b44 top: Prevent out-of-bounds writes in PUFF(). __Tweaked
This commit moves some overhead to the Batch mode path
where it's needed. And given the new 'else if' test we
can delete some now redundant logic in the other path.

Reference(s):
. original qualys patch
0117-top-Prevent-out-of-bounds-writes-in-PUFF.patch
commit 059ae8b512

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2018-05-19 21:46:07 +10:00
Jim Warner
d34c6eb5b4 top: address 'show_special()' o-o-b read/write concern
This patch addresses a potential (but unlikely) buffer
overflow by reducing, if necessary, a memcpy length by
3 bytes to provide for an eol '\0' and 2 unused buffer
positions which also might receive the '\0' character.

[ note to future analysis tool: just because you see ]
[ binary data being manipulated in the routine, that ]
[ doesn't mean such function was passed binary data! ]

Reference(s):
. original qualys patch
0116-top-Fix-out-of-bounds-read-write-in-show_special.patch
commit ed8f6d9cc6

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2018-05-19 21:45:36 +10:00
Jim Warner
2fb269a5b0 top: Fix out-of-bounds read/write in show_... REVERTED
I'm reverting this patch to prepare for some alternate
solution. In that solution I will address point #1 but
point #2 is based on a wrong assumption. There will be
no binary data ever found in the 'glob' passed to this
show_special() function. It is now always simple text.

------------------------------------------------ original commit message
This patch fixes two problems:

1/ In the switch case 0, if sub_end is at the very end of lin[], the two
null-byte writes are off-by-two (a stack-based buffer overflow). Replace
this end-of-string "emulation" with an equivalent test on ch (and then
goto/break out of the loop).

2/ "sub_end += 2" jumps over the null-byte terminator in lin[] if the
line contains a raw (without a tilde) \001-\010 character. Detect such a
null-byte terminator and goto/break out of the loop.

Note: in the case of a raw \001-\010 character, the character at
"sub_end + 1" is never processed (it is skipped/jumped over); this is
not a security problem anymore (since 2/ was fixed), so we decided not
to change this behavior, for backward-compatibility.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Reference(s):
. original qualys patch
0116-top-Fix-out-of-bounds-read-write-in-show_special.patch
commit ed8f6d9cc6

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2018-05-19 21:44:35 +10:00
Jim Warner
fdb58974e2 top: prevent buffer overflow potential in all routines
Whereas that original patch (since reversed) addressed
some symptoms related to manually edited config files,
this solution deals with root causes. And it goes much
beyond any single top field by protecting all of top's
fields. Henceforth, a duplicated field is not allowed.

Reference(s):
. original qualys patch
0114-top-Prevent-buffer-overflow-in-calibrate_fields.patch
commit c424a64331

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2018-05-19 21:44:11 +10:00
Jim Warner
72ddc1c33d top: Prevent buffer overflow in calibrate_... REVERTED
Here, again, we have an example of attacking a problem
by addressing the symptoms. And that assertion made in
the original commit message is true if only if someone
had manually (maliciously) edited the top config file.

So let's reverse the original patch & thus prepare for
a proper solution addressing the cause, not a symptom.

Reference(s):
. original qualys patch
0114-top-Prevent-buffer-overflow-in-calibrate_fields.patch
commit c424a64331

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2018-05-19 21:43:08 +10:00
Jim Warner
c502678715 top: Protect scat() from buffer overflows. ___REVERTED
The whole idea was to make top's 'scat' function small
and very quick, unlike that standard 'strcat' routine.

To achieve that end we ignore the potential for buffer
overruns and trust callers to provide adequate dest's.

Reference(s):
. original qualys patch
0109-top-Protect-scat-from-buffer-overflows.patch
commit 9c745975b2

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2018-05-19 21:42:36 +10:00
Jim Warner
59f39da852 top: concede integer overflow risks in procs_refresh()
This is as far as we need go with respect to the issue
of integer overflow addressed in that reference below.

That patch, of course, was reversed to prepare for us.

Reference(s):
. original qualys patch
0105-top-Prevent-integer-overflows-in-procs_refresh.patch
commit 131e5e2fe6

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2018-05-19 21:38:19 +10:00
Jim Warner
c9dfcdebdc top: Prevent integer overflows in procs_re... REVERTED
That patch referenced below is being reverted because:

. By design, no other top macro looks like a function.
Instead, they all contain some minimal capitalization.
The 'grow_by_size' macro stands out like a sore thumb.

. We would need to approach 400+ million tasks for for
the 1st addressed problem to produce integer overflow.

. And a 2nd check against SSIZE_MAX remains a mystery.

Me thinks a system on which top is running will suffer
ENOMEM before we need to worry about integer overflow.

Reference(s):
. original qualys patch
0105-top-Prevent-integer-overflows-in-procs_refresh.patch
commit 131e5e2fe6

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2018-05-19 21:37:29 +10:00
Jim Warner
3b2235c266 top: check sortindx risk exposure (not treat symptoms)
Rather than validate the window's 'sortindx' each time
it was referenced (as was done in the patch below), we
now ensure the validity just once when the config file
is read. Thereafter, a running top will police bounds.

Reference(s):
. original qualys patch
0102-top-Check-sortindx.patch
commit d5b8ac7139

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2018-05-19 21:24:36 +10:00
Jim Warner
fb8cee585f top: Check sortindx. _________________________REVERTED
Here's yet another example of dealing with a potential
problem at the symptom level, instead of addressing it
at the source. So, we will reverse that original patch
referenced below in preparation for a proper solution.

[ at the least, this ugly code should have used that ]
[ existing MAXTBL macro, making it a little prettier ]

Reference(s):
. original qualys patch
0102-top-Check-sortindx.patch
commit d5b8ac7139

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2018-05-19 21:23:57 +10:00
Jim Warner
53e2654726 top: other graph_cpus, graph_mems, and summ_mscale fix
This patch replaces an original patch referenced below
which has now been reversed. We now validate variables
'graph_cpus', 'graph_mems' and 'summ_mscale' just once
at startup. Thereafter, top enforces the proper range.

[ we afford the same treatment to that 'task_mscale' ]
[ variable, which was ignored in the original patch. ]

Reference(s):
. original qualys patch
0099-top-Check-graph_cpus-graph_mems-and-summ_mscale.patch
commit cd8ba5670e

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2018-05-19 21:22:56 +10:00
Jim Warner
d1fbc5fbd4 top: Check graph_cpus, graph_mems, and sum... REVERTED
The variables graph_cpus, graph_mems & summ_mscale are
all well managed in a running top. They were, however,
each vulnerable to tampering via the rcfile. So rather
than continually addressing the symptoms, we'll attack
the root cause just once at startup in the next patch.

Reference(s):
. original qualys patch
0099-top-Check-graph_cpus-graph_mems-and-summ_mscale.patch
commit cd8ba5670e

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2018-05-19 21:19:35 +10:00
Jim Warner
e531c78140 top: Do not default to the cwd in configs_r... Tweaked
While it's only documented (so far) in commit text and
an occasional email I've tried to maintain some coding
standards primarily for reference/navigation purposes.
They also served, I felt, as useful mental challenges.

Someday I will get around to formerly documenting them
but in the meantime here are the ones for this commit:

. functions are grouped into logical (i hope) sections
. functions & sections are ordered to avoid prototypes
. function names are alphabetical within every section
. all functions & sections must be referenced in top.h

This patch just attempts to honor the above standards,
while also covering this new behavior in the man page.

[ please note that the net result of these 2 patches ]
[ is simply to avoid pathname truncations should our ]
[ limit of 1024 be exceeded. they do not have a role ]
[ in solving the 'local privilege escalation' issue. ]

[ and we can never prevent a user from setting their ]
[ HOME var to a directory writable by some attacker! ]

[ the only real protection for that CVE-2018-1122 is ]
[ those soon to be enhanced rcfile integrity checks, ]
[ achieved through several of the following patches. ]

Reference(s):
. original qualys patch
0097-top-Do-not-default-to-the-cwd-in-configs_read.patch
commit b45c4803dd

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2018-05-19 21:17:59 +10:00
Qualys Security Advisory
059ae8b512 top: Prevent out-of-bounds writes in PUFF().
This patch prevents three problems:

1/ Because snprintf() returns "the number of characters (excluding the
terminating null byte) which would have been written to the final string
if enough space had been available", _eol may point past the end of _str
and write out-of-bounds (in Batch mode).

2/ _eol is never checked against _str, so "while (*(--_eol) == ' ');"
may point _eol below _str and write out-of-bounds (in Batch mode).

3/ Sanity-check Pseudo_row to protect the strcpy().
2018-05-19 07:33:15 +10:00
Qualys Security Advisory
ed8f6d9cc6 top: Fix out-of-bounds read/write in show_special().
This patch fixes two problems:

1/ In the switch case 0, if sub_end is at the very end of lin[], the two
null-byte writes are off-by-two (a stack-based buffer overflow). Replace
this end-of-string "emulation" with an equivalent test on ch (and then
goto/break out of the loop).

2/ "sub_end += 2" jumps over the null-byte terminator in lin[] if the
line contains a raw (without a tilde) \001-\010 character. Detect such a
null-byte terminator and goto/break out of the loop.

Note: in the case of a raw \001-\010 character, the character at
"sub_end + 1" is never processed (it is skipped/jumped over); this is
not a security problem anymore (since 2/ was fixed), so we decided not
to change this behavior, for backward-compatibility.
2018-05-19 07:33:15 +10:00
Qualys Security Advisory
6b8b102cf2 top: Harden calibrate_fields().
- Make sure i is at least 1 before "i - 1" and "--i".

- Initialize endpflg (to 0, as it was originally, since it is static)
  before the "for" loop (the "break" may leave endpflg uninitialized,
  for example).
2018-05-19 07:33:15 +10:00
Qualys Security Advisory
c424a64331 top: Prevent buffer overflow in calibrate_fields().
pflgsall[] can contain PFLAGSSIZ = 100 elements, each iteration of the
loop can write 3 elements to pflgsall[], and there are EU_MAXPFLGS = 58
iterations: a buffer overflow (it can be triggered via the configuration
file, for example, by filling "fieldscur" with the "sortindx" flag).
2018-05-19 07:33:15 +10:00
Qualys Security Advisory
a71ac048e6 top: Impose a minimum on Screen_cols.
The safety of the critical function task_show() depends on the sanity of
Screen_cols. Just copy the tests on w_cols to Screen_cols (from the same
function adj_geometry()).
2018-05-19 07:33:15 +10:00
Qualys Security Advisory
b4d068e624 top: Prevent integer overflow in adj_geometry(). 2018-05-19 07:33:15 +10:00
Qualys Security Advisory
23baeb1175 top: Limit Width_mode to SCREENMAX.
adj_geometry() limits to SCREENMAX too, but belt and suspenders, and
might as well tell the user about it.
2018-05-19 07:33:15 +10:00
Qualys Security Advisory
8ab8c1a469 top: Prevent integer overflows in config_file() and other_selection(). 2018-05-19 07:33:15 +10:00
Qualys Security Advisory
9c745975b2 top: Protect scat() from buffer overflows.
Several of these buffer overflows can actually be triggered (through the
configuration file for example): in config_file(), inspection_utility(),
and show_special().
2018-05-19 07:32:34 +10:00
Qualys Security Advisory
0847390b83 top: Always exit from sig_abexit().
The default action for SIGURG is to ignore the signal, for example.
This is very similar to the patch "ps/display.c: Always exit from
signal_handler()."
2018-05-19 07:32:34 +10:00
Qualys Security Advisory
7fc7062127 top: Initialize struct sigaction in before(). 2018-05-19 07:32:34 +10:00
Qualys Security Advisory
d69966962c top: Fix snprintf() call in capsmk().
Replace "snprintf(msg, sizeof(pmt)" with "snprintf(msg, sizeof(msg)".
Luckily sizeof(pmt) == sizeof(msg), but fix it anyway.
2018-05-19 07:32:34 +10:00
Qualys Security Advisory
131e5e2fe6 top: Prevent integer overflows in procs_refresh().
This is very similar to our patch against integer overflows in
readproctab*().
2018-05-19 07:32:34 +10:00
Qualys Security Advisory
b6be15d3cb top: Initialize cp in task_show().
Found no problematic case at the moment, but this is a cheap
just-in-case.
2018-05-19 07:32:34 +10:00
Qualys Security Advisory
713381b10d top: Protect macro parameters. 2018-05-19 07:32:34 +10:00
Qualys Security Advisory
d5b8ac7139 top: Check sortindx.
Every time sortindx is used as an index, or loaded from the
configuration file. Otherwise it leads to out-of-bounds reads and
arbitrary code execution.
2018-05-19 07:32:34 +10:00
Qualys Security Advisory
bbe58d7e0a top: Check width and col.
Otherwise they may lead to out-of-bounds writes (snprintf() returns the
number of characters which would have been written if enough space had
been available).

Also, make sure buf is null-terminated after COLPLUSCH has been written.
2018-05-19 07:32:34 +10:00
Qualys Security Advisory
97a989cbcd top: Check Rc.fixed_widest.
Otherwise it leads to crashes (for example, setting it to 2147483600 in
the configuration file segfaults top).
2018-05-19 07:32:34 +10:00
Qualys Security Advisory
cd8ba5670e top: Check graph_cpus, graph_mems, and summ_mscale.
Otherwise they lead to out-of-bounds reads and format-string bugs.

Since these variables are set/written to in several places (for example,
config_file()), check them in the only place where they are read/used.

Also, constify the static gtab[]s.
2018-05-19 07:32:22 +10:00
Qualys Security Advisory
bd91bbf7f1 top: Check i when setting Curwin in config_file().
Otherwise it leads to out-of-bounds reads (and maybe writes).
2018-05-19 07:32:22 +10:00
Qualys Security Advisory
b45c4803dd top: Do not default to the cwd in configs_read().
If the HOME environment variable is not set, or not absolute, use the
home directory returned by getpwuid(getuid()), if set and absolute
(instead of the cwd "."); otherwise, set p_home to NULL.

To keep the changes to a minimum, we rely on POSIX, which requires that
fopen() fails with ENOENT if the pathname (Rc_name) is an empty string.
This integrates well into the existing code, and makes write_rcfile()
work without a change.

Also, it makes the code in configs_read() easier to follow: only set and
use p_home if safe, and only set Rc_name if safe (in all the other cases
it is the empty string, and the fopen() calls fail). Plus, check for
snprintf() truncation (and if it happens, reset Rc_name to the empty
string).

Important note: top.1 should probably be updated, since it mentions the
fallback to the current working directory.
2018-05-19 07:32:22 +10:00
Qualys Security Advisory
e877d4f4c4 top: Fix double-fclose() in configs_read().
It happens only if RCFILE_NOERR is defined (it is not, by default).
2018-05-19 07:32:22 +10:00
Jim Warner
029a463172 top: show that truncation indicator ('+') consistently
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>
2018-03-03 17:52:43 +11:00
Jim Warner
0d352aa3d9 top: update copyright dates in source and man document
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2018-02-19 20:37:24 +11:00
Jim Warner
dddb8e1751 top: try to avoid premature truncation indicator ('+')
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2018-02-19 20:37:24 +11:00
Jim Warner
4e77b307dc top: avoid potential truncation with 'Inspect' feature
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>
2018-02-19 20:37:24 +11:00
Jim Warner
f3f90ab93c top: allow translated field headers to determine width
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>
2018-02-19 20:37:24 +11:00
Jim Warner
3b53aba319 top: an efficiency tweak to extra wide character logic
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>
2018-02-19 20:37:24 +11:00
Jim Warner
2167dcbccb top: standardize width of the %CPU & %MEM columns at 5
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>
2018-02-19 20:37:24 +11:00
Jim Warner
c888534a4e top: account for the idle state ('I') threads in total
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>
2018-02-12 20:53:57 +11:00
Jim Warner
b4bce3b8fa top: adapt utf8 logic to support extra wide characters
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>
2018-02-12 20:53:56 +11:00
Jim Warner
dfa118b4d5 top: tweak that recent enhancement to startup defaults
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>
2018-02-12 20:53:56 +11:00
Craig Small
a238a687ce docs: Document I idle state in ps and top
Linux 4.2 provided a new process state of I which is used for an idle
kernel thread. This new state means that kernel threads do not
contribute to the loadavg as they are no longer state D or S but I.

While both ps and top displayed this state, it wasn't documented in
either manual page until now.

References:
 https://bugs.debian.org/886967
 https://www.quora.com/What-does-mean-Linux-process-state-I-in-the-top-output
 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=80ed87c8a9ca0cad7ca66cf3bbdfb17559a66dcf
2018-01-13 11:18:09 +11:00
Jim Warner
3e6a208ae5 top: allow more flexible approach for startup defaults
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>
2017-12-23 17:41:37 +11:00
Jim Warner
cdf8eac99e top: miscellaneous changes to whitespace/comments only
[ ok, there's also 1 newly added #undef included too ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-12-23 17:41:37 +11:00
Jim Warner
18e5aecd2b top: exploit msg handler override to avoid corrupt tty
Way back in November of 2011, the library was equipped
with an overridable error message handler function. It
was done expressly for a program like top which alters
the tty. But that support was withdrawn shortly after.

This was all done in the lead up to v3.3.2. That's the
release where NLS support was added and it represented
a hectic time. In hindsight, the changes went too far.

So this commit, in a minimal fashion, restores ability
to address a potential fatal library error. After all,
any properly behaving library would never unilaterally
subject a caller to a stderr message and then an exit.

[ when exposing 1 variable in libprocps.sym, 2 other ]
[ existing symbols were repositioned alphabetically. ]

Reference(s):
. generalized library memory provisions
commit 7126cc4491
. top exploit library memory provisions
commit 88087ec5a5
. library xalloc type functions made private
commit 2865ded64e
. restored prior top memory logic
commit 05f5deb97c

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-12-20 21:07:44 +11:00
Jim Warner
0a91e21d3a top: add and/or expand a couple more translation hints
After noticing that the 'uk' translation expanded what
was supposed to be a 3 line header into 5 lines, seems
appropriate to offer more guidance on max lines count.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-12-20 21:07:35 +11:00
Jim Warner
4e2a1ba9b1 top: stop neglecting potential utf8 field descriptions
And I thought those strange characters I saw with only
certain translations in Fields Management descriptions
were resulting from my terminal emulator deficiencies.

Turns out that ol' top wasn't addressing possibilities
of such descriptions ending with multi-byte sequences.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-10-14 21:44:56 +11:00
Jim Warner
1ba0e999c6 top: eliminate that potential vulnerability for TOCTOU
Initially, I was going to ignore that coverity warning
CID #177876. But, since top may be running SETUID it's
best if it can be avoided instead. The fix was simple.

We'll trade the access() call for a real fopen() call.
This time-of-check-time-of-use warning should go away.
------------------------------------------------------

When XDG support was originally introduced in top, the
author made a poor choice in access(). A real question
that needed asking was 'does the file exist'. However,
the question that was asked was 'can this real user ID
or this real group ID access the file'. Then, when the
fopen() is finally issued, top would use the effective
user ID or the effective group ID to access that file.

That's what opened the potential TOCTOU vulnerability,
which was important only if top was running SUID/SGID.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-10-14 21:44:56 +11:00
Jim Warner
0f5d503103 top: make 'utf8_justify' independent of non-utf8 logic
By eliminating the call to 'fmtmk', the 'utf8_justify'
function could more easily be used in libproc someday.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-10-14 21:44:56 +11:00
Jim Warner
ac76afee36 top: utf8 utils should observe indentation conventions
Gosh, all this time we used indents of 4 spaces, not 3
spaces which were always the top standard indentation.

[ and we made our 'utf8_embody' a little more robust ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-10-14 21:44:56 +11:00
Jim Warner
fba7a919fb top: ensure bug report suggestion agrees with man page
The top man page was changed back on 10/20/15, in that
commit shown below. There, freelists.org was suggested
as the bug reports recipient. But, the program was not
changed from the original Debian bug reports approach.

Reference(s):
commit b1f7b2a509

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-10-14 21:44:56 +11:00
Jim Warner
f762cd5660 top: make the 'utf8_proper_col' routine more efficient
This patch better exploits short-circuit evaluation in
two 'if' tests. In every case, the 1st of 2 conditions
in each 'if' test must take place but it always proves
true with each iteration for 1 of the 'if' statements.
Thus, the 2nd condition will have to be evaluated too.

By reordering 2 tests in each 'if', we can ensure that
the 2nd condition will then be tested much less often.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-10-07 09:01:55 +11:00
Jim Warner
abde5d7d5e top: make that 'make_str_utf8' function more efficient
Upon reflection, there was absolutely no justification
for that call to strlen() which was then followed by a
call to snprintf(). The latter provides this needed #.

[ also make that 'delta' value a little more visible ]
[ instead of hiding it at the end of a its code line ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-10-07 09:01:55 +11:00
Jim Warner
6597ac227d top: ensured one translation hint agrees with template
Now that top can properly handle translated multi-byte
strings I've been reviewing translated efforts so far,
and weighing output against related translation hints.

In one case, a translation hint has not kept pace with
the current program state. In addition, that same hint
could be expanded to suggest translation alternatives.

[ frankly I never expected the translators to tackle ]
[ some of those 'special' strings. the task appeared ]
[ just too daunting. but they have done a great job! ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-10-07 09:01:55 +11:00
Jim Warner
18958c507e top: improve the translator hint regarding field width
Reference(s):
https://www.freelists.org/post/procps/Does-COMMAND-really-have-to-be-at-most-7-characters,2

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-10-07 09:01:55 +11:00
Jim Warner
f6ee2c0085 top: correct an insidious occasional truncation buglet
With the help of our Swedish translator, hopefully the
final buglet has now been vanquished in the multi-byte
translation support. This one was a real nasty bugger.

Although it didn't occur with every terminal emulator,
occasionally random text lines were being chopped off.

As it turns out, those terminals were blameless. There
were two separate places in top's show_special routine
where potential multi-byte sequences were inadequately
addressed. Solution: exploit existing utf-8 functions.

[ it also became apparent that the translation hints ]
[ in the top_nls module were deficient. so a special ]
[ caution was added regarding the final line of txt. ]

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

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-10-02 22:20:58 +11:00
Jim Warner
d5a9965cde top: plug a small potential hole in multi-byte support
Unlike the insp_mkrow_raw function the insp_mkrow_utf8
routine is not equipped to print non-ctl, non-printing
characters like '<7f>'. However, technically that very
value currently slips through the cracks. So with this
patch top will now print a space in the unlikely event
a character with the value of 127 is ever encountered.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-10-02 22:20:58 +11:00
Jim Warner
cd88d4538b top: extend utf-8 multi-byte support to users & groups
Since all the necessary utf-8 plumbing is now in place
this commit will extend multi-byte support to user and
group names. Now top will be on a par with the ps guy.

[ plus, it's also my way of showing appreciation for ]
[ all those investments silently made by translators ]

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

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-10-01 22:30:16 +11:00
Jim Warner
d002bdc455 top: some minor tweaks to the utf-8 multi-byte support
Translatable column headers are supposed to be limited
to no more than 7 characters, even though some columns
are wider than that or even variable width. That value
of 7 is dictated by the Fields Management screen which
will otherwise truncate a column header longer than 7.

Our new utf-8 support did not adequately deal with the
potential need for truncation of column headers should
that limit of 7 be exceeded. This patch corrects that.

[ a few comments were also tweaked just a little bit ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-10-01 22:30:16 +11:00
Jim Warner
fad0c62076 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 22:19:58 +11:00
Jim Warner
7ef38420a4 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 22:19:58 +11:00
Jim Warner
01fb8d5a78 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 22:19:58 +11:00
Jim Warner
a2ceb95e2a 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 20:55:46 +10:00
Jim Warner
e3c729adfa 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 20:55:46 +10:00
Jan Rybar
d9c4b6b011 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>
2017-08-14 22:13:28 +10:00
Jim Warner
ac76e4db2c 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 4b44aebd80

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-07-04 20:29:26 +10:00
Jim Warner
0998225651 top: ensure necessary proc_t support if '-U' filtering
While the effective user id would always be present in
each proc_t, thus supporting 'u' filtering, other user
ids would only be present if /proc/$$/status was read.

This commit just puts the 'master' branch top on a par
with the 'newlib' branch when user filtering with 'U'.

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-07-04 20:29:25 +10:00
Jim Warner
4b44aebd80 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 909b37d755

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-06-04 21:28:39 +10:00
Jim Warner
c409f5a433 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 21:34:38 +10:00
Jim Warner
1422c219ac top: now includes that NUMA node field display support
[ this patch has been adapted from the newlib branch ]

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

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-05-22 21:34:32 +10:00
Jim Warner
f6f859c8f3 top: correct man page alphabetical order for -E switch
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-05-22 21:34:32 +10:00
Jim Warner
56d79b9d13 top: provide more accurate cpu usage stats for startup
The top program already incorporated a modest delay at
startup so that some minimal process cpu history could
be established. However, Summary Area system level cpu
statistic history reflected usage since boot. As such,
unchanging % values would be shown with every restart.

This commit just adopts the same approach used in task
%CPU history for the Summary Area statistics. In other
words, it introduces a 'priming read' at startup as is
found in the newlib implementation for the <stat> API.

Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/merge_requests/42

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-03-29 22:07:44 +11:00
Jim Warner
909b37d755 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 89db82d143

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-03-29 22:07:44 +11:00
Jim Warner
90ac0dabf5 top: just update all of the copyright dates in sources
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-03-16 21:59:53 +11:00
Jim Warner
fc5f5a93ba 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 ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-03-16 21:59:53 +11:00
Jim Warner
89db82d143 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

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-03-16 21:59:53 +11:00
Jim Warner
fb48b5d9fb 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

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-03-16 21:59:53 +11:00
Jim Warner
fe6e03d8a9 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

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-03-16 21:59:53 +11:00
Jim Warner
ddcdba18b7 top: correct alphabetic ordering with some enumerators
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-03-16 21:59:53 +11:00
Earnestly
af53e170b9 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>
2017-01-17 23:47:40 +00:00
Jim Warner
398b83f40f top: make for consistent & enhanced cpu % calculations
That issue cited below prompted some changes under the
newlib branch to standardize the calculation involving
busy, idle, user & system accumulated plus delta tics.

This patch will bring our master branch version of top
into agreement with that newlib version which exploits
some of those newly added library extended provisions.

Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/48

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2017-01-04 08:14:42 +11:00
Jim Warner
5c78e785ee top: accumulated misc tweaks to code/comments/man page
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-12-07 21:50:52 +11:00
Jim Warner
c6407ef125 top: make that 'forest view' just a tad more efficient
It makes no sense to begin our tracked nested level at
'1' then later require a '1' to be subtracted from the
level as artwork and indentation is added for display.

By beginning such tracked levels at zero, we can avoid
the need to adjust it & use it directly in a snprintf.

[ this commit parallels a patch in our newlib branch ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-10-16 08:18:31 +11:00
Jim Warner
98ed114c26 top: just some minor tweaks to the man document (only)
This patch just parallels some adjustments/corrections
which were also implemented under the 'newlib' branch.

[ remaining differences between man documents relate ]
[ to old kernels with topic '2b. TASK and CPU State' ]
[ and a note in '4c. SORTING' for TTY + WCHAN fields ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-10-09 21:34:05 +11:00
Jim Warner
18b1a887b7 top: finally circumvent that minor libnuma memory leak
Still unhappy with a minor memory leak associated with
libnuma, I experimented with omitting the dlclose that
was issued at module's end. For some reason which will
remain a mystery, the valgrind leak then went bye-bye.

So this patch just omits one use of dlclose and relies
on whatever kernel magic is at work to free the memory
when each process ends. We kept, however, the original
code (now commented-out) to serve as a future caution.

There remains one potential (but unlikely) dlclose use
near the original dlopen. But there will be no leak as
that 'numa_node_of_cpu' will not yet have been called.
This seems to be the culprit that triggers such leaks.

None of this libnuma shit would likely have come close
to hitting our fan had the numa developers provided us
with 'new' and 'unref' functions like our newlib does.

[ this commit parallels a patch in our newlib branch ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-09-18 20:39:12 +10:00
Jim Warner
5313852596 top: avoid yet more overhead of accessing /proc/status
After discovering those terrible costs associated with
/proc/status vs. /proc/stat, the build_header function
changed to favor the latter for a field found in both.

Well, low-and-behold, this top program still used some
flags that needlessly caused 'status' to still be read
when 'statm' could have served. And, while top's needs
require conversion from pages to KiB, that's still far
less costly than reading that gosh darn 'status' file.

[ this patch parallels similar changes to newlib top ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-08-23 21:12:32 +10:00
Jim Warner
7df87ea7cf top: when setting library flags favor stat over status
Long ago, in a galaxy far away, top was convinced that
/proc/stat was to be favored over /proc/status if some
field could be satisfied with either. This was done to
avoid extra costs of 64-bit math for 32-bit platforms.

Well, its time to acknowledge the prevalence of 64-bit
platforms. And in such an environment there is a large
hidden cost currently if using status instead of stat.
In fact, that cost difference can be as high as 1400%.

So, this commit will coax top into favoring that least
costly route while also fixing an EU_TGD library flag.

[ this patch parallels similar changes to newlib top ]

Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
2016-08-23 21:12:32 +10:00