When top was originally adapted to use that <pids> API,
the forest view support was redesigned since the proc_t
pad_3 byte could no longer be employed to hold a task's
nesting level. The redesign required additional arrays.
Now that the dust is settling on those initial efforts,
that PROCPS_PIDS_noop item was used as a substitute for
the old pad_3 along with a return to the former design.
But, while it proved adequate, the invariant nature for
that item required of top an extra initialization step.
So the library was coaxed into adding one more pid_item
(PROCPS_PIDS_extra) which will, unlike that 'noop' guy,
be reset with each reap. Everybody should be happy now.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
A patch containing the following miscellaneous tweaks:
. remove a function that handled former library errors
[ that function should have gone bye-bye with 3.3.11 ]
[ when those 'wchan' provisions were much simplified ]
. make clearer a distinction between 'new' and 'reset'
[ use PROCPS_PIDS_noop when procps_pids_new() called ]
[ since at that point we are only establishing depth ]
Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/newlib-for-pgrep,1
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
A patch containing the following miscellaneous tweaks:
. exploit (actually adapt) a pids.h provided VAL macro
. remove some obsolete, now unused, sort related items
. clarify the comment for specialized extractor macros
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
It was probably always wrong to have a variable length
proc_t structure. This patch takes all remaining oomem
former suse only options and makes them unconditional.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
. didn't need a separate table for enum pids_reap_type
since top's 'Thread_mode' itself can be used directly.
. with pids support & the loss of forest_based(), that
forest_adds() function had to be renamed so the prolog
comment regarding naming convention was still honored.
. adapted to a library change to the pids_reap struct.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
TOP, respond to library change to the pids_reap struct ...
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The newlib informal cutoff for kernel support seems to
be around release 2.6. This commit eliminates any such
support for really old 2.4 and 2.5 kernels within top.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This patch adapts top to exploit the new <proc/pids.h>
interface. And it appears to have reduced top's weight
by a considerable margin. Gone were the sort callbacks
and manipulation of those library flags. Gosh, all top
needs to do now is track some enumerators of interest.
[ whoa, wait just a damn minute. it now appears some ]
[ that weight loss was solely the result of a theft. ]
[ jeeze, we turn our back for just a minute & newlib ]
[ up & steals our pids hashing logic for his history ]
[ needs. oh well, i guess life's just not that fair. ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jeeze, to correct spelling on one single word (incure)
you had to go and align the entire comments paragraph?
[ well, at least there's one other minor code change ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit is mostly about eliminating code, now that
a library is responsible for the cpu tics maintenance.
The top program will continue to provide numa support,
without involving the library in any of those details.
[ not to mention all the 'dl' and 'stderr' numa crap ]
With this transfer of the cpu tics duty to our library
the provision associated with the CPU_ZEROTICS #define
could not initially be migrated. The commit referenced
below suggests it may have lost its importance. In any
case such logic may yet be incorporated in the future.
But for now, that #define has been completely removed.
Reference(s):
commit ee3ed4b45e
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit just tweaks top in the following respects:
. for alphabetic integrity, change 'INSP_hdr...' names
. eliminate the -Wsometimes-uninitialized warning that
was found under OSX Yosemite (llvm 6.0/clang-600.0.56)
. update program 'comments' reflecting copyright dates
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
A recent commit eliminated the potential for a storage
violation with forest view mode. It occurred when some
program (erroneously?) created a lengthy forking loop.
However, the associated commit message was misleading.
The message implied that an unexpected order following
a sort on start_time was the cause of storage overruns
and a 'char' used to track nesting level only distorts
the display when it goes negative. Actually, the truth
is really just the opposite. Any start_time sort quirk
causes no harm while that 'char' can yield corruption.
Should some child end up sorted ahead of its parent by
way of an extremely unlikely shared start_time the end
result is such a child will be displayed unnested just
like init or kthreadd along with all its own children.
However, if nesting levels exceeded 255 (and became 0)
a massive array overrun could be triggered when such a
task and *all* its children were added to an array for
the second time. Exactly how much storage was violated
depended on the number of children that zeroed process
had spawned (hinted at via either SIGSEGV or SIGABRT).
The earlier commit limited nested levels to 100 so the
root cause of the storage violation was already fixed.
The potential for distorted nesting levels due to sort
on start_time would seem to remain. But it's extremely
unlikely that 2 tasks would share the same start_time.
Even so, a new #define has been introduced which makes
top impervious to the order of tasks such that a qsort
is no longer necessary (providing an init/systemd task
exists & was harvested as the first task by readproc).
It can be utilized if distorted nesting ever becomes a
real issue. But since there is a 5-10% performance hit
with that, we'll continue using start_time as default.
References(s):
commit ce70017eb1
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit will eliminate a very nasty bug associated
with top's forest view mode. It addresses a potential
SIGSEGV/SIGABRT that was only encountered when another
program (erroneously?) creates a lengthy forking loop.
If the growing list of nested children is sufficiently
fast such that proc_t start_time is duplicated between
children then the sort upon which top relies might not
produce the expected order. That, in turn, could cause
the forest_adds function to initially miss some child.
But that missed child would be caught by forest_create
and eventually would cause our array boundary overrun.
Such overrun occurs when some child of that originally
*missed* child is found and a duplicate add attempted.
In correcting this bug we'll also use this opportunity
to prohibit a borrowed proc_t padding byte (char) from
going negative. If the nesting level exceeded 127, the
effect was an "unnesting" with the snprintf width then
viewed as flag+width also yielding left justification.
Henceforth, we'll limit nesting to 100 with subsequent
children shown as " + ", not the usual " `- " prefix.
References(s):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153642http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/Bug-in-the-forrest-view,6
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This patch will cure a potential aberration associated
with a terminal's size (SIGWINCH) and top's new graphs
modes. The symptoms were a dangling tilde (~) plus the
potential loss of a graph's right-most visual content.
The condition was only apparent when a %Cpu approached
100% usage. Also the apparent loss of content affected
the 'block' graph only. With 'bar' graphs, that affect
became the loss of proper right-most bar graph colors.
The cause was determined to be a combination of: 1) an
unnecessary snprintf precision specification; and 2) a
rounding quirk for any graphs which displayed distinct
types of information (as for user/syst, used/unavail).
These could then combine to produce an extra bar/block
which, in turn, resulted in the truncation of a pseudo
termcap attribute used by the show_special() function.
What was originally interpreted as an intractable race
condition turns out to be just a self inflicted wound.
Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-Possible-bug-in-the-graphs,1
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This patch will trade a former pessimistic calculation
of free physical memory for a more optimistic one that
uses the newly added kb_main_available library export.
But in case one might wish to return to the old former
method, there's a new #define that was made available.
[ the new calculation will affect graphing mode only ]
Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/systemd-support-to-library,9
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
For over a decade top has used a startup configuration
mimicking the original redhat top. This decision dates
back to when the forked Sourceforge version was trying
to win over users in battles with that ancient kludge.
Will anybody deny that those defaults are coyote ugly?
Well, it is time that top presented a more modern look
at startup, providing that no saved rcfile exists. But
just in case some distro prefers that old, comfortable
look, there's the '--disable-modern-top' build option.
[ Pssst. With the widened memory fields it turns out ]
[ the 'Mem' default window had become almost useless ]
[ on an 80x24 terminal since %CPU & COMMAND were out ]
[ of view. So some other defaults were tweaked a bit ]
[ whether or not --disable-modern-top was specified. ]
Reference(s)
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/tops-graph-mode-saga-continues,3
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
When startup argument parsing was recently enhanced to
account for LC_NUMERIC settings, some user input logic
dealing with numbers fails to exploit that capability.
This patch extends such enhancements to a running top.
Reference(s):
commit f7b84f45c7http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/topwatch-floating-point-input,2
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
When those new cpu/memory graphs modes were introduced
they had global impact. In other words, the modes that
were chosen for a 'current' window affect Summary Area
appearance for every other window as well, even though
each window sets unique View_STATES/View_MEMORY flags.
I do not know how widespread the use of top's separate
window provisions is, but I do know that documentation
promises every window (field group) provides "a unique
separately configurable summary area". And even though
that promise does not include memory scaling (separate
'E' command) the graph modes are integral to 't' & 'm'
and those were already observed on a per window basis.
So this patch just takes the cpu and memory graph mode
values out of global scope in the configuration file &
gives each window its own unique pair of graph values.
Reference(s):
commit 1d171ec741
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Boy I hate locale stuff. For code I thought was pretty
robust, Jaromir sure proved that it wasn't. Anyway, me
thinks this commit closes some gaps and will cause top
to behave appropriately under various locale settings.
It does *not* permit top to respond to the ',' and '.'
floating point separator without regard to the locale.
It does, however, enforce proper LC_NUMERIC responses.
Let's look on this commit as an interim solution until
Jaromir can create that proposed 'fp_decode' function.
Who knows, he might even borrow some of our mkfloat().
[ An aside: the coreutils sleep and timeout programs ]
[ claim to permit floating point arguments. However, ]
[ neither one will accept the comma separator should ]
[ the locale be a country that in fact uses a comma. ]
[ In other words, with this commit we are way ahead! ]
Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/topwatch-floating-point-inputhttp://www.freelists.org/post/procps/topwatch-floating-point-input,1
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
My original graph modes implementation made no attempt
to align the Cpu & Mem/Swap graphs. I thought, rather,
that such alignment could be best achieved by the user
using top's 'E' memory scaling command toggle. In that
way Mem/Swap prefixes could be reduced by 3 positions,
bringing the beginning '[' into line with the %Cpu(s).
If that proved to be too cumbersome a #define could be
enabled making the Mem/Swap prefix static while adding
a few padding bytes to the %Cpu line(s) for alignment.
It was those waisted bytes that were the most concern.
What I had not counted on was the fact that the memory
lines themselves might become misaligned & that became
likely with more physical memory present. That too can
be cured with the 'E' command but as scaling is raised
we soon reach a meaningless total such as '0.003' even
though the displayed % remains valid (and unchanging).
So this commit implements unconditionally what used to
be conditional. But, instead of waisting padding bytes
we'll put that space to good use with a new 'total %'.
Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/latest-top-enhancements,1
commit 1d171ec741
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This patch makes 't' (View_STATES) & 'm' (View_MEMORY)
commands into 4-way toggles. The two new modes provide
for two different graphs of the cpu and/or memory use.
These new capabilities are similar to those offered by
the 'htop' program. However they're aesthetically more
pleasing (to me) plus the scalings are more authentic.
Poor ol' top has long been troubled by the comparisons
offered up by the 'htop' program. Many of those things
were only true of the original redhat top while others
are no longer true of this current top program. So let
me use this commit msg to begin to correct the record.
Corrected comparisons between 'htop' & 'top' programs:
------------------------------------------------------
+ htop does not start faster, actually reverse is true
+ top offers scrolling vertically and horizontally too
. (and top offers better <Home> and <End> key support)
+ unassigned keystrokes don't subject top to any delay
. (but htop suffers that annoying ncurses <Esc> delay)
+ in top one need not type the PID to kill the process
+ in top one need not type the PID to renice a process
Some things the 'htop' program was not bragging about:
------------------------------------------------------
+ top can outperform the htop program by a wide margin
+ htop + SIGWINCH = corrupted display + restart likely
+ htop cannot preserve its screen data at suspend/exit
+ the htop column management scheme is very cumbersome
+ htop allows columns to be duplicated again and again
+ htop displays only full command lines, not pgm names
. (and that 'Command' column must always be displayed)
. (and it must always remain as the last column shown)
+ htop does not provide for any sort of command recall
+ htop's search feature does not highlight any matches
+ there is no 'find next' outside of htop search modes
+ htop does not allow Header or Process memory scaling
+ htop provides no flexibility on column justification
+ htop does not provide the means to change col widths
+ htop provides less control over colors configuration
+ htop always overwrites the rcfile with any UI change
Someday, maybe we'll provide a better comparison as an
addendum for (or replacement of) that README.top file.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Since its inception top has always used enumerators to
identify displayable fields. They've taken the form of
P_PID, etc. As it turns out, something has changed for
libc6-dev versions beyond 2.17-93 wherein 'P_PID' will
now be exposed via stdlib.h. I have not pinpointed the
exact cause but it may depend on header include order.
This patch just trades top's long standing 'P_' prefix
convention for that of 'EU_' (short for enumerator). I
cannot find *any* header under /usr/include/ currently
utilizing this particular three character combination.
And as a further safeguard top will henceforth include
'system' specific headers after the standard includes.
Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-wont-compile-anymore
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
When top originally responded to the potential libnuma
stderr write, the library was consistently called with
each refresh cycle. That, in turn, guaranteed that any
warning message would be seen at program end by virtue
of: 1) having been issued before the 2nd refresh cycle
and; 2) benefiting from inherited /dev/null buffering.
A later efficiency refactor meant the numa library may
not always be called with every refresh cycle. Rather,
it was only called if top was in one of two numa views
(the '2' or '3' toggles). That, in turn, resulted in a
loss of any warning message at program end unless numa
mode had been preserved in the rcfile. In other words,
if top was started normally then a single cycle stderr
redirect would have long passed by the time the '2' or
'3' toggle was activated. The warning message actually
was spewed but quickly lost to the full screen refresh
which follows all keyboard interactions with the user.
This commit simply moves the restoration of our stderr
redirect to program end (instead of that first display
refresh). Now, any libnuma stderr warning message will
appear as the concluding output line upon quitting top
without regard to when any numa mode view was invoked.
And since this technique might be useful in some other
context (as an example of how to 'buffer' stderr) it's
been generalized with its own #define. But to maximize
its usefulness, the original redirect should be issued
much earlier in pgm startup than top has chosen to do.
Reference(s):
. original libnuma stderr response (msg seen)
commit 35dc6dcc49
. numa refractoring for efficiency (msg lost)
commit f12c0d5c6e
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Apparently there are occasions when NUMA nodes may not
always be contiguous. Under such conditions nodes that
were not used would still occupy precious Summary Area
space showing 100% idle, under the '2' command toggle.
With this commit top will no longer display numa nodes
that have no associated cpu when the '2' toggle is on.
But just in case we wish to return to former behavior,
a new #define called OFF_NUMASKIP has been introduced.
And as an aside, a recent refactor mentioned below set
the stage for this patch to be 'self-tuning'. In other
words, if an inactive/non-displayed node should become
active (if even possible), then top will begin showing
such a node automatically with the next screen update.
Unfortunately, all inactive nodes now 'suppressed' are
still accessible via the '3' command. Those nodes will
just be displayed as empty (no associated cpus shown).
This is not really a top problem but more of a libnuma
and/or user deficiency. The library lacks the means to
validate a node id and the user then input a node that
was not even shown under a '2' toggle Summary display.
( too bad libnuma does not offer an 'is_node_active' )
( type function so top could warn a user when such a )
( discontinuous node was requested using his '3' cmd )
( sure, top could achieve this objective himself but )
( that would require making yet another array global )
( which i'm just not in the mood to do - besides, we )
( have already made enough concessions to libnuma.so )
Lastly, an existing #define (PRETEND_NUMA) was changed
to 'disable' node #1 so as to simulate a discontinuous
node. This allows testing of the '2' and '3' commands.
Reference(s):
http://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg08671.html
. set stage for self tuning
commit f12c0d5c6e
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The recent addition of namespaces, combined with those
potential suse out-of-memory fields, means that we are
close to the maximum number of fields poor ol' top can
display. Imagine, the really old top was limited to 26
fields (28 with the suse hack) and this top had neared
the version 'g' rcfile limits which were a healthy 55.
This patch adds another 15 fields to the maximum while
making it even easier to increase in the future. Also,
top still silently accommodates older config files all
the way back to the original pre-ng version top-3.2.8!
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
When the final solution for cursor positioning for all
^Z or ^C cases was introduced the revised placement of
message line management introduced with the window mgr
'screen' refactor was retained. Those two commits mean
that a former tgoto was no longer needed when clearing
that msg line or displaying the scroll coordinate msg.
This patch eliminates the tgoto employed by frame_make
while assimilating a now defunct show_scroll function.
Reference(s):
. final cursor positioning for ^Z or ^C
commit 46a1356219
. 'screen' window manager refactor
commit 0fe393ff27
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit mostly justs renames a few identifiers but
it also will now suppress any end-of-job report if top
wasn't ended via the 'q' key convention (i.e. signal).
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The title of this commit is actually quite misleading.
Were it more accurate, it would at least mention a tty
emulator's scrollback buffer, which was the cumulation
of a long pursuit to reduce the SIGWINCH overhead when
a window manager carelessly floods an application with
that signal *while* a user is still resizing a window!
Disabling and enabling that scrollback buffer resulted
in the final top display replaced with original screen
contents, a phenomenon acknowledged at the time but it
also represented a user interface change which has now
produced the first request for return to old behavior.
After the SIGWINCH dust settled, another problem arose
regarding behaviors under the 'screen' window manager.
In response, top was refactored a bit to avoid display
corruption. That was before discovering 'screen' could
duplicate the scrollback buffer behavior top expected.
As it turns out, the 'screen' refactoring had probably
made scrollback buffer manipulation unnecessary. Still
one could argue that a window should not be allowed to
scroll while a constantly updating program was active.
The solution represented in this commit returns former
behavior at program end (retaining top's last screen).
And if we ever wish to disable scrollback buffers, the
associated logic was retained but made conditional. It
is not reflected in configure.ac but might be someday.
Lastly, this commit corrects cursor positioning when a
^C is issued under 'Fields Management' at any terminal
that didn't have a scrollback buffer (i.e. a console).
Reference(s):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=977561http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-library-miscellaneous-tweaks,1
. screen program refactor
commit 0fe393ff27
. scrollback buffer disabled
commit dedaf6e1a8
. sigwinch management defines
commit adca737758
commit 4f33b6b8c5
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
When summary & task area memory scaling was introduced
in release 3.3.6, the memory field widths were widened
slightly so unscaled KiB values could be provided more
consistently and scaled values (beyond MiB) could show
3 decimal places of precision. However, some users may
prefer the former widths/precisions for memory fields.
This commit will provide a build time configure option
to return top to those former defaults as a compliment
to a new %CPU & %MEM field precision configure option.
Reference(s):
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=707648
commit 21e550bc08
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
When summary & task area memory scaling was introduced
in release 3.3.6, the percentage columns were expanded
to provide 3 decimal places of precision. In hindsight
that may have been overkill, making those columns more
of a distraction than useful, with just too much info.
This patch will revert those columns to the former one
decimal place. And as was true, that decimal point may
be sacrificed depending on the number of cpus present.
And, in case anyone might prefer additional precision,
a build option can provide it (--enable-wide-percent).
Reference(s):
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=707648http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/What-happened-to-my-top,1
commit 21e550bc08
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The NUMA/Nodes support in top has gone through several
evolutions (primarily dealing with build-sys options).
With this commit the library dependency issues are now
moot and the responsibilities for run-time loading and
dynamic linking are assumed by the top program itself.
Henceforth, if top is executed in an environment where
libnuma.so is present, top will offer such extensions.
Even more importantly, when a missing libnuma is later
installed, top will offer numa support auto-magically.
All NUMA/Node build-sys dependencies are thus removed.
The former NUMA_ENABLED define has become NUMA_DISABLE
should anyone wish to test user interface implications
in an environment that *does* have libnuma. It is also
represented as the ./configure option: --disable-numa.
Lastly, the 't' (View_STATES) toggle will be forced on
for sanity whenever the '1', '2' or '3' keys are used.
Reference(s):
. original idea from: Dr. Fink <werner@suse.de>
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-NUMA-node-CPU-utilization-support,18
. original numa suppoort
commit 8d989c68c0
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
With the addition of NUMA/Node support and the ability
to emulate such support even in the absence of libnuma
and numa.h, the maximum number of cpus top can emulate
was increased to make numa emulation more interesting.
( whew, that's an awful lot of "emulates", me thinks )
Reference(s):
commit 8d989c68c0
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit extends the top Summary Area cpu states to
include information on Non-Uniform Memory Architecture
nodes. It is based upon changes originally proposed by
Lance Shelton who was instrumental in the final patch.
With this change, the user will have new commands that
will provide alternatives to the individual cpu stats:
. '2' toggles between cpu & numa node summary displays
. '3' provides node summary and related cpu statistics
These extensions required some minimal system support.
Typically, the numactl package (and maybe libnuma-dev)
are all that's needed to show a single node which owns
all the processors. Failing that, or for slightly more
variety, top also offers a #define named PRETEND_NUMA.
(everything is perfectly justified plus right margins)
(are completely filled, but of course it must be luck)
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Signed-off-by: Lance Shelton <LShelton@fusionio.com>
This change represents the extension of user filtering
based on inclusion or exclusion. However where 'U'/'u'
filtering provides an either/or choice, this extension
offers multiple choices applicable to multiple fields.
The 'inclusion' and 'exclusion' criteria can be freely
combined making a powerful tool to fine tune a display
and avoid clutter associated with uninteresting tasks.
I'm convinced it offers unimagined future flexibility!
(everything is perfectly justified plus right margins)
(are completely filled, but of course it must be luck)
Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-over-the-top,22http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-over-the-top,8
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
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
Thus, given those constraints/objectives, and in order
to prepare for an upcoming Other_Filter feature, a few
things had to be renamed and rearranged. Plus a couple
of other (unrelated) tweaks were made for consistency.
(everything is perfectly justified plus right margins)
(are completely filled, but of course it must be luck)
Reference(s):
commit 270e8e7eebhttp://www.freelists.org/post/procps/PATCH-12-top-restore-terminal-state-on-exit,4
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
if top is suspended while on the 2nd level help screen
the <Enter> key is no longer honored. Thus, users must
use <Esc> to exit help and return to the main display.
Also, line input that was only partially complete when
suspended would still require one additional keystroke
before the read was aborted and the display refreshed.
Lastly, some user interactions might require two input
lines before an operation can be considered completed.
Thus the 2nd line offers another opportunity for users
to suspend top. Resumption would require an extra key.
These issues stem from 2 recent enhancements: preserve
the user context when signaled; complete input editing
with cursor movement keys, insert/overtype modes, etc.
With this patch, the <Enter> key is once again honored
on help screen #2 and partial reads are now completed.
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Reference(s):
bug reported
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-over-the-top,25
response to ^Z (partial solution)
commit 5c3fffcf28
line input editing
commit 477b10c0bd
preserve context with SIGWINCH
commit ba9092ad83
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
After revisiting the issue of a new field, combining 2
existing fields (RES and SWAP), I've decided it indeed
makes sense. After all, with the vastly expanded field
capability and the ease of adding new fields, it would
save some precious horizontal screen real estate while
also eliminating some mental/manual user calculations.
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Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-enhancements-i-hopehttp://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-regression-reports
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
top/top.1 | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
top/top.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
top/top.h | 6 ++++++
top/top_nls.c | 3 +++
4 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
This commit just gathers all the logic associated with
resetting/normalizing a single window in one function.
In the future, should the window structure be expanded
to support added functionality, the act of maintaining
it will have been made a little bit easier, hopefully.
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Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The original implementation of input line recall keeps
strings in the order established when initially added.
With this commit, that has been changed so any matched
string moves to the top of the saved input line stack.
[ well technically not the top since that's occupied ]
[ by an 'empty' string which serves multiple masters ]
Thus, the most frequently referenced strings over time
will percolate up and remain the most easily recalled.
But just in case anybody prefers the strict historical
ordering, a #define can restore the original behavior.
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Reference(s):
commit 2efe275512
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
With this commit, users can now retrieve previous line
input for re-editing and/or re-input using the Up/Down
arrow keys (or their aliases). This mirrors the 'bash'
or 'less' interface and represents a major enhancement
achieved via a somewhat minor impact to our code base.
[ 33 lines of code, 5 closing braces & some comments ]
[ all in 1 function, when TERMIOS_ONLY isn't defined ]
Currently, the upper limit for such recallable strings
has been set at 50 but that could be easily increased.
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Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This patch changes the TERMIO_PROXY define back to the
former TERMIOS_ONLY thus changing the top default too.
Plus we can now use true line input editing while also
retaining paste capability. That former native termios
support provided only a limited destructive backspace.
Now we exploit the Left/Right arrow keys, Home/End and
Delete. Plus, the Insert key can toggle overtype mode!
[ The stage is now set for a really huge improvement ]
[ to any user input terminated with the <Enter> key. ]
[ So please stay tuned for the next patch to arrive! ]
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Reference(s):
commit fa21a6ca81
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
With this commit top can now display users which match
a user id/name or just those users which do not match.
The distinction is based on the presence or absence of
a leading exclamation point '!' (C negation operator).
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Reference(s):
Wishlist, http://bugs.debian.org/682086
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Lately, top has begun to rely more and more on dynamic
memory allocations rather than the static buffers that
were found in many of its structures. This was perhaps
most evident in the increasing use of the strdup call.
This commit trades that function call for the internal
equivalent which will protect us from malloc failures.
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Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
No top #define is enabled and that constitutes default
behavior. So whenever a default behavior should change
the define must be changed too if it is to remain off.
This commit simply changes top's default behavior with
respect to allowing/suppressing any potential flood of
SIGWINCH during resize operations, if running under X.
Formerly top would block those signals to reduce costs
of repeated refreshes. That yields a requirement where
the user would have to provide another keystroke for a
final display update. That keystroke may not always be
needed now, but it ultimately depends on some terminal
emulator's scrollback buffer. In any case, the cost of
re-sizing may go up a bit, under most window managers.
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Reference(s):
commit 4f33b6b8c5http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-won-the-sigwinch-warhttp://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-won-the-sigwinch-war,4http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-won-the-sigwinch-war,5
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
After carefully working our way to the point where the
excessive SIGWINCH interrupts are now throttled, along
comes a commit which reverses all those prior efforts.
Actually it doesn't. It simply allows one to choose if
all those efforts should be reversed or remain active.
Why in the world would you even want to consider that?
Quite simply, to opt for responsiveness over overhead.
Oh, and depending on the terminal emulator used for X,
by enabling this OFF_SIGWINCH #define you will be able
to avoid the need for an extra keystroke after resize.
Besides it was an interesting programming challenge to
see just how few lines of code would be needed to make
it possible. Bottom line? Only 1 source line required!
(actually 0 lines, since the define disables one line)
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Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/unwanted-topinspect-window-enclosure-with-the-terminal-size-change
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
