diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 7e0aad61..dd682e2d 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,21 +1,43 @@ -Version ???? +Recent changes: - uptime give help if you use invalid chars Debian #93490 +designed to support Linux 2.0 through 2.5.41 and beyond +new top, with optional: color, windowing, SMP stats +runs faster +more "it crashes" bugs fixed +top shows IO-wait time +vmstat can show active/inactive memory stats +real-time info supported in ps +correct "ps -o size" and "ps --sort size" +new maintainers +reduced memory usage for ps +allow large PIDs to be specified +SELINUX support is just a recompile away +the "F" column shrank, so "ps -l" has more command name room +64-bit time reduces the overflow problem +support S/390, IA-64 emulator, and user-mode Linux +oldps is gone +configure script -- use "make -f Makefile.noam" as a backup +"w" program better at determining what a user is doing +more stable +code at http://procps.sf.net/ now (SourceForge) - /proc/tty/drivers correctly parsed. Debian #108654 - (Thanks russell*AT*coker.com.au) - - oldps doesn't FPE because of no shared mem Debian #101917 - (Thanks David Murn ) - - Put most of the Debian diffs in. - - ps no longer crashes if System.map is %1024. Debian #109237 - (Thanks Colin Walters) - - libproc self buffer increased from 512 to 1024 bytes for - large number of groups. Debian #145085, #85775 - - w guesses the best process for the user better, good for samba and - some xdm session problems Debian #88758 (Thanks Eloy) +Earlier changes, for those not using Debian already: +more stable +runs faster +-F format option +better error reporting in ps for unknown format specifiers +BSD's sysctl options -b and -X +top displays well on large-memory systems +old BSD-style select-by-PID ("ps l$$") +15-character user names +ps 'f' ASCII art forest fixed +add SIGSYS on i386 +top reports real RSS value +large-memory systems work +minimal ps program for embedded systems (minimal.c) +BSD personality process selection fixed +support locale (French) with ',' and '.' mixed up +pgrep program +includes the "kill" and "nice" programs +don't chop non-tty ps output at 80 columns