Command line and full screen utilities for browsing procfs, a "pseudo" file system dynamically generated by Linux to provide information about the status of entries in its process table.
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With older library logic having been modified to avoid using those potentially deadly alloc.h routines, while improving 'errno' handling, we're ready to standardize and enhance newlib's approach to any potential errors. In so doing, we'll establish the following objectives: . . . . . . . . . . . . . functions returning an 'int' . an error will be indicated by a negative number that is always the inverse of some well known errno.h value . . . . . . . . . . . functions returning an 'address' . any error will be indicated by a NULL return pointer with the actual reason found in the formal errno value And, when errno is manipulated directly we will strive to do so whenever possible within those routines which have been declared with PROCPS_EXPORT. In other words, in the user callable functions defined in source last. [ But, that won't always be possible. In particular, ] [ all the 'read_failed' functions will sometimes set ] [ 'errno' so that they can serve callers returning a ] [ NULL or an int without duplicating a lot of logic. ] [ Also, that includes one subordinate function which ] [ was called by 'read_failed' in the <slabinfo> API. ] ------------------------------------------------------ Along the way, several additional miscellaneous issues were addressed. They're listed here now for posterity. . the '-1' return value passed outside the library was eliminated since it would erroneously equate to -EPERM . the stacks_fetch functions in <diskstats> and <stat> weren't checked for their possible minus return values . hash create was not checked in <meminfo> or <vmstat> . fixed 'new' function faulty parm check in <slabinfo> Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net> |
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procps
procps is a set of command line and full-screen utilities that provide information out of the pseudo-filesystem most commonly located at /proc. This filesystem provides a simple interface to the kernel data structures. The programs of procps generally concentrate on the structures that describe the processess running on the system.
The following programs are found in procps:
- free - Report the amount of free and used memory in the system
- kill - Send a signal to a process based on PID
- pgrep - List processes based on name or other attributes
- pkill - Send a signal to a process based on name or other attributes
- pmap - Report memory map of a process
- ps - Report information of processes
- pwdx - Report current directory of a process
- skill - Obsolete version of pgrep/pkill
- slabtop - Display kernel slab cache information in real time
- snice - Renice a process
- sysctl - Read or Write kernel parameters at run-time
- tload - Graphical representation of system load average
- top - Dynamic real-time view of running processes
- uptime - Display how long the system has been running
- vmstat - Report virtual memory statistics
- w - Report logged in users and what they are doing
- watch - Execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen
Reporting Bugs
There are a few ways of reporting bugs or feature requests:
- Your distributions bug reporter. If you are using a distribution your first port of call is their bug tracker. This is because each distribution has their own patches and way of dealing with bugs. Also bug reporting often does not need any subscription to websites.
- GitLab Issues - To the left of this page is the issue tracker. You can report bugs here.
- Email list - We have an email list (see below) where you can report bugs. The problem with this method is bug reports often get lost and cannot be tracked. This is especially a big problem when its something that will take time to resolve.
If you need to report bugs, there is more details on the Bug Reporting page.
Email List
The email list for the developers and users of procps is found at http://www.freelists.org/archive/procps/ This email list discusses the development of procps and is used by distributions to also forward or discuss bugs.