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>
SIGCONT is a continue signal. It seems that some zsh setups can send
this signal, causing ps to abort. This is not what "continue" means.
This change just uses the default handler which will continue a stopped
process.
References:
http://bugs.debian.org/732410http://www.zsh.org/cgi-bin/mla/redirect?WORKERNUMBER=32251
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
If top were invoked under the 'screen' window manager,
writing the terminfo string 'exit_ca_mode' at top exit
would not restore the display to the state existing at
the time top was started. That's what occurs normally.
The net result of that failure was a corrupted screen.
However, there is a 'screen' configuration option that
will produce proper 'rmcup' behavior, but it is off by
default. That screencr option is known as 'altscreen'.
I stumbled across this provision by cloning the screen
git repository then searching for references to 'cup'.
If 'altscreen on' had been in either the /etc/screenrc
or the $HOME/.screenrc configuration file, my poor old
top would never have been accused of such corruptions.
Of course, the Programming Gods decree that any simple
solution for our problem must always be revealed last.
So before discovering that rc option, another approach
was taken involving top only. With just a little extra
refactoring of top display logic he was made immune to
any such quirk in the implementation of 'smcup/rmcup'.
I always feel good about any enhancement that actually
reduces the total number of lines of code. Even though
this change involved mostly rearranging some logic, it
yielded one less line (can't judge by diffstat because
of braces & notes). Anyway, rather than requiring some
change to a screenrc file, now we are self-sufficient.
Reference(s):
procps ---------------------------------------------
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=962022http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-procpsng337-no-screen-cleaning-at-exit,3
. top : disable tty scrollback buffer to improve SIGWINCH
commit dedaf6e1a8
screen ---------------------------------------------
git://git.sv.gnu.org/screen.git
. Improve cursor store/restore on smcup/rmcup.
commit f95352946080be803b794c9f2733d8c809c1a39a
. Fix using alternate screen buffers in some cases.
commit ad56f746c6243d45124485d198d577bdbb78071c
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=558724
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This commit provides the NEWS and man document changes
supporting the new NUMA/Node top program enhancements.
For providing the initial impetus for this enhancement
I wish to thank Lance Shelton <LShelton@fusionio.com>.
(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 commit provides the hard copy support for our new
'Other Filter' feature. The man document contains some
potentially useful examples and it will be interesting
to see what use this new tool is put to in the future.
(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>
freeproc was missing from the libproc API which meant while you could
allocate proc structures, you couldn't free them!
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/681653
We got a bug report, that our project doesn't spell "SELinux"
consistently/correctly. I've fixed that and the patch is attached.
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
pkill would not parse -u <uid> options correctly and needed no space
between the flag and uid.
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/676239
Signed-Of-By: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
Fix the build where it seems a code fix for Linux was likely untested
on other systems.
Define SCHED_BATCH in test-schedbatch, for systems that don't have it;
the corresponding RH BZ#741090 patch used the magic value 3 in output.c
anyway.
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/677055
This message has been here for ages and either people ignore it because
they are so used to using -aux or never see it. It was here before 2005
and really 7 years is enought time to people to change their ways.
The notice is now removed, people who make usenames like "x" deserve all
the punishment they can get.
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/670592
This commit simply:
. adds some missing top acknowledgements
. reorganizes 3.3.3 text by program and bug number
. eliminates one instance of trailing whitespace
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Makefile.am testsuite needed to explicitly state the files because while
everything else works, make distcheck fails.
NEWS got updated with the Debian bug number for pgrep -u
Using ncurses initscr/endwin clears the screen for xterm/etc it
now prints raw text using printf
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/503089
Author: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
configure.ac now set to 3.3.1
vmstat -p has not worked for a long time, this applies Debian patch
vmstat_part_format, the details:
Author: Daniel Novotny
Description: The contents of /proc/diskstats have changed since 2.6.25
Changed PATH_MAX to 32 because its missing on hurd
Bug-Redhat: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=485243
Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/588677
Last-Update: 2010-11-17
