A few minor changes are being made to position the old
readproc logic for a transition to the newlib pid api.
These changes will not impact current users beyond the
the need to recompile such code. Hopefully this should
be very last version change to the deprecated library.
. most char arrays were replaced via char * to dynamic
memory. this was done so that newlib could just assume
ownership of such strings without using a strdup call.
. former user and group name arrays also became char *
but here the reason was because pwcache already cached
those names. so, copying to an array never made sense.
. the concept of QUICK_THREADS used to avoid duplicate
overhead for string data was disabled. it could not be
integrated with the newlib design, at least initially.
. any #define which influenced the size of that proc_t
was disable in the header. it was probably a poor idea
to approach optional features in such a manner anyway.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
While testing a newlib interface for pids acquisitions
I encountered some unexpected results if an idiot user
(me) turns off all displayable fields. So, this commit
ensures that the PID field will be shown as a minimum.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
When the USED column was introduced the proc_t.vm_swap
& proc_t.resident values were added together. However,
using 'resident' required an additional PROC_FILL flag
not to mention extra conversion of pages to kibibytes.
So now we'll use an already present vm_rss value which
removes any special handling for top's derived column.
And while we're at it we'll trade some more 'resident'
field uses with that more immediately usable 'vm_rss'.
[ this commit has been adapted for the newlib branch ]
Reference(s):
commit 709785e20b
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>
Since it's possible that euser name is not being shown
or the horizontal position had been scrolled past that
USER column, then part of those headers will be blank.
So it doesn't make sense to try and show the USER that
is associated with a process at all. Thus, this commit
simply removes the 'user' provision from both headers.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The cgroup field while shown as a vector is a concatenated
string, so alot of the complexity of sorting and displaying
has gone.
This change simplifies the cgroup sorting and adds display
and sorting for the name attribute of the cgroup, if found.
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
A rather small fix to sort by cgroup. This sorting function
could be used for other string vector entries, but I can't
see why you want to for, say, environment.
Reference:
https://bugs.debian.org/692279
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
procps v3.3.11 will bring Library API 5:0:0
The reason for the change is the removal of some calls and
the addition of others. The newlib branch should hopefully
reset some of these changes to a much slower pace.
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
.version is created in the top_srdir which when building normally
doesn't present a problem. When make distcheck is run, the source
directory is made read-only and it fails with permission denied.
The version of misc/git-version-gen is old and is missing the
instruction to add .version to EXTRA_DIST. This commit does just
that.
make distcheck now passes.
References:
https://github.com/gagern/gnulib/blob/master/build-aux/git-version-genhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2011-08/msg00000.html
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
If the -s option was the first option on the command line, free
would report seconds argument failed. This only appeared on the
Debian free, not the one in git.
Closer examination revealed that if a valid float string is
given to strtof() it doesn't set errno to 0, but just leaves it
alone. As we are explicitly testing errno for overflows, this
means the previous errno change is picked up here.
The simple answer is to set errno to 0 before calling strtof().
References:
https://bugs.debian/org/733758https://enc.com.au/2015/08/08/be-careful-with-errno/
This patch just eliminates some eol whitespace, adds a
missing eof newline and contributes yet one additional
entry to the NEWS summary regarding saved top rcfiles.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
ps has two columns showing the same data which is elapsed time, just
the format is changed:
etimes - elapsed time in seconds
etime - elapsed time in DD-hh:mm:ss
ps used to only sort by etime but not etimes, by making etimes
and alias of etime for sorting both flags work.
References:
https://bugs.debian.org/794619
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
While testing a newlib interface for pids acquisitions
I encountered some unexpected results if an idiot user
(me) turns off all displayable fields. So, this commit
ensures that the PID field will be shown as a minimum.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
When the USED column was introduced the proc_t.vm_swap
& proc_t.resident values were added together. However,
using 'resident' required an additional PROC_FILL flag
not to mention extra conversion of pages to kibibytes.
So now we'll use an already present vm_rss value which
removes any special handling for top's derived column.
And while we're at it we'll trade some more 'resident'
field uses with that more immediately usable 'vm_rss'.
Reference(s):
commit 709785e20b
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>
Since it's possible that euser name is not being shown
or the horizontal position had been scrolled past that
USER column, then part of those headers will be blank.
So it doesn't make sense to try and show the USER that
is associated with a process at all. Thus, this commit
simply removes the 'user' provision from both headers.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Fix readlink anomalies
Noticed minor readlink issues in pidof.c and pwdx.c.
I have fixed them in two separate commits, please see the commit messages for their specific descriptions.
See merge request !5
This commit just corrects the oversight wherein 'item'
was being employed when 'these' was actually intended.
Also, it trades some 'item' use for a more descriptive
input parameter which henceforth is known as a 'dest'.
And, there was one leftover 'next' pointer eliminated.
Finally, some logic was made a tad less dependent upon
enumerator names and a few comments were also updated.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
When a user is taking advantage of the scroll features
it is likely a scrolled vertical position is well past
the first displayable task. That is especially true of
top's forest view ('V') mode where those early systemd
attached processes are generally not very interesting.
As such, should the idle mode toggle ('i') be employed
a distorted display is almost guaranteed because tasks
that have used some cpu, and thus should be displayed,
have already been skipped by virtue of their position.
So this patch temporarily nullifies vertical scrolling
during the period when idle tasks are not being shown.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
With the new perspective on potential uses of a 'noop'
enumerator (or whatever we decide to call it) there is
no longer a need to provide for any extra 'user' space
in the stack header structures used by slab & meminfo.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
In addition to that text shown below the line which is
common to several commit messages, this patch contains
several minor changes with lessor impact upon the API:
. Standard copyright boilerplate was added in .c file.
. The #include header files are ordered alphabetically
now, with all those <sys/??> types separately grouped.
. The header file follows the conventions of indenting
(by 4 spaces) those parameters too lengthy for 1 line.
------------------------------------------------------
. The former 'chains' have now become 'stacks' without
the 'next' pointer in each result struct. The pointers
initially seemed to offer some flexibility with memory
allocations and benefits for the library access logic.
However, user access was always via displacement and a
a statically allocated chain was cumbersome to define.
. An enumerator ending in '_noop' will no longer serve
as a fencepost delimiter. Rather, it has become a much
more important and flexible user oriented tool. Adding
one or more such 'items' in any items list passed into
the library becomes the means of extending the 'stack'
to also include user (not just library) data. Any such
data is guaranteed to never be altered by the library.
. Anticipating PID support, where many different types
must be represented in a result structure, we'll adopt
a common naming standard. And, while not every results
structure currently needs to reflect disparate types a
union will be employed so the same dot qualifier ('.')
can be used consistently when accessing all such data.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
In addition to that text shown below the line which is
common to several commit messages, this patch contains
several minor changes with lessor impact upon the API:
. A call to procps_stat_read_jiffs() has been added to
those jiffs functions carrying the 'fill' nomenclature
to parallel like functions in some of our other files.
. The #include header files are ordered alphabetically
now, with all those <sys/??> types separately grouped.
. Standard copyright boilerplate was added in .c file.
. The header file follows the conventions of indenting
(by 4 spaces) those parameters too lengthy for 1 line.
------------------------------------------------------
. The former 'chains' have now become 'stacks' without
the 'next' pointer in each result struct. The pointers
initially seemed to offer some flexibility with memory
allocations and benefits for the library access logic.
However, user access was always via displacement and a
a statically allocated chain was cumbersome to define.
. An enumerator ending in '_noop' will no longer serve
as a fencepost delimiter. Rather, it has become a much
more important and flexible user oriented tool. Adding
one or more such 'items' in any items list passed into
the library becomes the means of extending the 'stack'
to also include user (not just library) data. Any such
data is guaranteed to never be altered by the library.
. Anticipating PID support, where many different types
must be represented in a result structure, we'll adopt
a common naming standard. And, while not every results
structure currently needs to reflect disparate types a
union will be employed so the same dot qualifier ('.')
can be used consistently when accessing all such data.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
In addition to that text shown below the line which is
common to several commit messages, this patch contains
several minor changes with lessor impact upon the API:
. A 'read' was added to function procps_slabnode_count
(but only when necessary, i.e. info->nodes_used == 0).
. The #include header files are ordered alphabetically
now, with all those <sys/??> types separately grouped.
------------------------------------------------------
. The former 'chains' have now become 'stacks' without
the 'next' pointer in each result struct. The pointers
initially seemed to offer some flexibility with memory
allocations and benefits for the library access logic.
However, user access was always via displacement and a
a statically allocated chain was cumbersome to define.
. An enumerator ending in '_noop' will no longer serve
as a fencepost delimiter. Rather, it has become a much
more important and flexible user oriented tool. Adding
one or more such 'items' in any items list passed into
the library becomes the means of extending the 'stack'
to also include user (not just library) data. Any such
data is guaranteed to never be altered by the library.
. Anticipating PID support, where many different types
must be represented in a result structure, we'll adopt
a common naming standard. And, while not every results
structure currently needs to reflect disparate types a
union will be employed so the same dot qualifier ('.')
can be used consistently when accessing all such data.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
In addition to that text shown below the line which is
common to several commit messages, this patch contains
the following additional change without an API impact:
. The #include header files are ordered alphabetically
now, with all those <sys/??> types separately grouped.
------------------------------------------------------
. The former 'chains' have now become 'stacks' without
the 'next' pointer in each result struct. The pointers
initially seemed to offer some flexibility with memory
allocations and benefits for the library access logic.
However, user access was always via displacement and a
a statically allocated chain was cumbersome to define.
. An enumerator ending in '_noop' will no longer serve
as a fencepost delimiter. Rather, it has become a much
more important and flexible user oriented tool. Adding
one or more such 'items' in any items list passed into
the library becomes the means of extending the 'stack'
to also include user (not just library) data. Any such
data is guaranteed to never be altered by the library.
. Anticipating PID support, where many different types
must be represented in a result structure, we'll adopt
a common naming standard. And, while not every results
structure currently needs to reflect disparate types a
union will be employed so the same dot qualifier ('.')
can be used consistently when accessing all such data.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
w would error out if the window size was smaller than 71 or some
other fields through environment grew too big. The code was a little
convoluted as well. The minimum length for command was 3, which is
pretty useless.
This change does the following:
w doesn't care by default the window size
w will adjust the command length up and down, to a minimum of 7
characters.
if the fields don't fit, w will line-wrap each line.
The idea being its better the line-wrap than it is to error out.
References: https://bugs.debian.org/183394
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
If there is a PID wrap-around w will choose the wrong process.
For example:
$ ps x -o pgrp,tpgid,start,tty,cmd | grep pts/3
3834 3834 21:50:26 pts/3 ssh server
4461 4461 21:57:14 pts/2 grep pts/3
23410 3834 21:07:17 pts/3 mutt
26071 3834 Jul 13 pts/3 /bin/bash
w will show the user as:
csmall pts/3 my-laptop:S.1 13Jul15 5:54 1.36s 1.13s /bin/bash
So why?
w scans the process table and has two ways of finding the best match.
#1 match things like terminal,username and process group, find oldest
#2 match utmp pid to process tgid
The problem is that #2 trumped #1, which is fine when your login process
is numerically lower than your other processes. However in this case
26071 is larger and appears later in the readdir() than the correct
process, which is 3834.
The fix is not not overwrite best if it already exists.
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
When a user is taking advantage of the scroll features
it is likely a scrolled vertical position is well past
the first displayable task. That is especially true of
top's forest view ('V') mode where those early systemd
attached processes are generally not very interesting.
As such, should the idle mode toggle ('i') be employed
a distorted display is almost guaranteed because tasks
that have used some cpu, and thus should be displayed,
have already been skipped by virtue of their position.
So this patch temporarily nullifies vertical scrolling
during the period when idle tasks are not being shown.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
While meminfo does implement only the singular version
of 'xxxx_chain_fill', it was wrong to limit the 'read'
to the plural version (only) within our new slabs API.
This kind of inconsistency will only spell trouble for
future users of the new libprocps API. So, this commit
will mean that any form of xxxx_chain(s)_fill function
also includes a 'read', whereas xxx_getchain does not.
Reference(s):
commit aab537bc13http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/newlib-interfaces
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
With a little help from smatch, this commit eliminates
some inappropriate code. Also some programmer comments
were (barely) improved (i hope) in some small measure.
Reference(s):
smatch: 406 procps_meminfo_chain_fill() warn: variable dereferenced before check 'chain' (see line 403)
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
In addition to exploiting the new interface, a warning
for a meminfo variable 'used uninitialized' was fixed.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
In addition to the new interface several other changes
were made. In fact, there are so many I must apologize
in advance to Craig, et al. for the hatchet I wielded.
Among the changes was my attempt to shrink the body of
that main() function. It's amazing how some folks must
always cram as code much as possible into ol' main().
Personally, unless it's a throwaway quick & dirty pgm,
all main function bodies should not exceed one screen.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
With this patch, we will be close to an implementation
which will be needed when accommodating tasks/threads.
The following explanation was from an earlier message:
The slabtop requirements are similar to those of PIDs.
One must accommodate the variable number of slab nodes
(PIDs) while also accepting different data (char * and
unsigned long). Furthermore, some generalized means to
sort all that acquired stuff must somehow be provided.
------------------------------------------------------
So this patch expands the API to provide dynamic chain
allocation plus allow sorting of those dynamic chains.
While specific to slab needs (nodes, not global stats)
it is not too early to begin to think of newlib chains
as the opaque replacement for a deprecated old proc_t.
Better yet, any newlib chain is inherently variable in
length, something the old proc_t couldn't claim to be.
Of course, as we get to PIDs we'll want to grow/shrink
chains (easily accomplished with a special item enum).
And we'll want to grow/shrink those **head arrays too.
But these minor details don't seem insurmountable now.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The commit msg summary says it all (well, not really).
The previous statically allocated results chain served
the top program perfectly in all its lib memory needs.
But, someone needs to try out the brand new interface.
Besides, there were a few other changes which I wanted
to make. And among them were the following miscellany:
. some names were changed, like 'context' became 'ctx'
. an unnecessary redundant library call was eliminated
. the placement of a few globals was made more logical
( thanks Craig for following the capitalization rule )
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
An earlier approach to meminfo chaining, referenced in
the patch shown below, represents the first baby steps
toward the goal of some generalized approach with PIDs
processing. However, statically allocating a chain for
each task or thread is totally impractical. And, while
a single chain could serve all PIDs, that would mean a
separate call to our library for each running process.
This commit is intended as the next evolutionary step,
dynamically allocating some 'result' chains to contain
as many or as few 'items' as a caller wishes. In other
words, holding only those 'items' of current interest.
This is the kind of service useful for both top and ps
programs if we finally get around to /proc/<PID> data.
Reference(s):
commit c3fd7473c5
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This was Craig's original patch, referenced below, but
it was never pushed to newlib. It has now been rebased
on top of some diskstat stuff to serve as a beginning.
The original effort was perfectly serviceable (after a
memory leak was fixed) but the approach would not have
served future PID needs when that proc_t went bye bye.
The slabtop requirements are similar to those of PIDs.
One must accommodate the variable number of slab nodes
(PIDs) while also accepting different data (char * and
unsigned long). Furthermore, some generalized means to
sort all that acquired stuff must somehow be provided.
So I wanted to try a different approach that seemed to
hold potential for satisfying future top and ps needs.
Subsequent commits will make that attempt, building on
Craig's original patch whose commit msg appears below.
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All of the /proc/slabinfo related calls have been changed
here. They follow the same procps_slabinfo_* format.
Made both the slabtop and vmstat programs use the new
API as one was using the old one and one was just sort
of trying to do its own thing.
Sorting of slabnodes is also possible via the library.
Reference(s):
http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/Sorting-slabsprocesses,3http://www.freelists.org/post/procps/library-rework-slabinfo-calls
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The function pid_link tries to handle programs which contain very
long paths to their executables. If 1024 bytes are not enough to
contain the path, the loop wants to get more and more space until
the path can fit.
The loop's condition does not fit though.
readlink will never return a value higher than its supplied size
limit, which is "path_alloc_size - 1", therefore the loop-check of
"len == path_alloc_size" will always be false: the loop will never
be repeated.
While at it, the if-condition inside the loop's body can be omitted,
because it is always true.
malloc and realloc could return NULL when no memory is available.
The code doesn't handle errors, so use xmalloc/xrealloc instead.
While at it, sync alloclen's type with len's type, so both are ssize_t.
The previous commit got rid of some but not all the library. The
format of it was a little odd with the library being explicitly
defined instead of letting autoconf do it for you.
