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Jim Warner bcf4f5a830 top: restore the former behavior after stderr redirect
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>
2014-02-22 11:16:22 +11:00
contrib miscellaneous: clean up trailing whitespace once again 2013-04-07 18:05:01 +10:00
Documentation miscellaneous: fixed current misspell-check's findings 2013-03-14 12:36:47 +01:00
include build-sys: fix the fatal 'make dist' error for nsutils 2013-09-12 06:52:42 +10:00
lib Merge commit 'refs/merge-requests/13' of git://gitorious.org/procps/procps into merge-requests/13 2013-09-11 21:34:05 +10:00
misc build-sys: rename the 'tools' subdirectory to 'misc' 2012-03-02 21:25:38 +11:00
po build-sys: use Makevars --add-comments= to limit .pot comments 2011-12-20 17:30:52 +01:00
proc Check for presence of disks in vmstat 2014-01-29 22:22:11 +11:00
ps Update help files 2014-02-02 18:13:01 +11:00
testsuite Update help files 2014-02-02 18:13:01 +11:00
top top: restore the former behavior after stderr redirect 2014-02-22 11:16:22 +11:00
.gitignore build-sys: treate new pidof the same as other products 2013-11-04 16:00:42 +01:00
AUTHORS Add -p|--pretty option to uptime(1) for pretty output. 2012-02-22 10:35:12 -05:00
autogen.sh Fix a remaining util-linux word in autogen 2012-02-26 08:39:16 +11:00
ChangeLog other: tell in ChangeLog where to see changes 2012-01-13 22:42:38 +01:00
configure.ac ps: possibility to display slice unit for a process 2013-10-16 15:18:08 +02:00
COPYING license: update FSF addresses 2012-03-04 08:04:24 +11:00
COPYING.LIB miscellaneous: clean up trailing whitespace once again 2013-04-07 18:05:01 +10:00
free.1 free: reusing 'shared' for Shmem 2013-09-09 16:54:00 +02:00
free.c Update free text to help translators 2013-10-10 09:56:44 +11:00
kill.1 docs: fix manual page warnings 2012-04-16 12:55:53 +02:00
Makefile.am pidof: reimplemented from scratch (replacing sysvinit pidof) 2013-10-10 17:01:48 +02:00
NEWS ps: ignore SIGCONT 2014-01-14 22:23:58 +11:00
pgrep.1 pgrep: introduce support for namespaces 2013-04-16 15:05:31 -04:00
pgrep.c Update help files 2014-02-02 18:13:01 +11:00
pidof.1 pidof: support for omitted %PPID and additional separators 2013-10-14 15:38:33 +02:00
pidof.c Update help files 2014-02-02 18:13:01 +11:00
pkill.1 procps 010114 2002-02-01 22:47:29 +00:00
pmap.1 pmap: Including -p in the man page 2013-11-26 13:45:22 +01:00
pmap.c Update help files 2014-02-02 18:13:01 +11:00
pwdx.1 docs: fix manual page warnings 2012-04-16 12:55:53 +02:00
pwdx.c pwdx: fails when run in a nonexistent locale 2013-08-05 20:52:22 +10:00
README docs: add how to contribute to README 2012-03-03 18:28:52 +11:00
skill.1 skill: support namespaces 2013-04-18 13:59:44 -04:00
skill.c Update help files 2014-02-02 18:13:01 +11:00
slabtop.1 miscellaneous: clean up trailing whitespace throughout 2013-03-14 12:36:47 +01:00
slabtop.c Split help lines to help translators 2013-12-28 09:25:39 +11:00
snice.1 procps 010114 2002-02-01 22:47:29 +00:00
sysctl.8 sysctl, w: miscelaneous usage/man fixes 2013-07-19 14:50:02 +02:00
sysctl.c sysctl: Fixing memory leaks in PreloadSystem() 2014-01-02 19:49:36 +01:00
sysctl.conf docs: remove tcp_default_win_scale from sysctl.conf sample 2012-01-24 22:34:12 +01:00
sysctl.conf.5 docs: fix manual page warnings 2012-04-16 12:55:53 +02:00
tload.1 docs: fix manual page warnings 2012-04-16 12:55:53 +02:00
tload.c Update options to single strings 2013-10-11 10:07:10 +11:00
uptime.1 Merge commit 'refs/merge-requests/2' of git://gitorious.org/procps/procps into merge-requests/2 2013-09-11 20:50:48 +10:00
uptime.c Merge commit 'refs/merge-requests/2' of git://gitorious.org/procps/procps into merge-requests/2 2013-09-11 20:50:48 +10:00
vmstat.8 vmstat: Support for timestamps with '-t' & fix for '-wd' 2014-02-04 19:10:42 +01:00
vmstat.c vmstat: Fixing format-security flaws 2014-02-05 17:09:45 +01:00
w.1 sysctl, w: miscelaneous usage/man fixes 2013-07-19 14:50:02 +02:00
w.c Update options to single strings 2013-10-11 10:07:10 +11:00
watch.1 docs: fix manual page warnings 2012-04-16 12:55:53 +02:00
watch.c watch: Don't leak extra fds to the child 2014-02-04 19:23:59 +01:00

COMPATIBILITY

    This code is intended for use with Linux 2.6.xx, 3.x and
    hopefully all future kernels.

INSTALLATION

    If you are using git version of the project you need extra step.

    ./autogen.sh

    After that, and everyone using .tar.xz version of procps-ng, can
    do normal build.  Read './configure --help' to select options for
    your needs.

    ./configure
    make
    make install

    If you have DejaGNU installed you can run optional test suite.

    make check

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    See Documentation/BUGS file.

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    Avoid maintaining distribution specific patches.  Send your
    patches to upstream, where they are at least reviewed, if not
    included.

    Please forward bug reports. If your bug database is public and
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    For normal packages, ensure that you do not add debugging flags
    to the CFLAGS variable.

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