Real usecase:
'sysctl -w user.max_uts_namespaces=2147483648; echo $?'
returns 0 even though it failed with EINVAL
The close_stream() realised there was an issue and printed an
error but didn't change the return value.
Slightly modified merge request.
References:
procps-ng/procps!76
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz>
systemd-sysctl handles glob patterns along with overrides and
exceptions. Now the procps sysctl does it too.
The return value for sysctl is consistently either 0 or 1.
Added tests to check sysctl functions.
References:
procps-ng/procps#191
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz>
These changes were already implemented for this newlib
version, but not in the the master branch top version.
[ and we also add the missing 3.3.17 ps 'exe' change ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
sysctl would try to read/write any path you gave it either on
the command line or configuration file. It would append /proc/sys
on the path but not check for any sneaky path traversal with ../
This commit means it first resolves all paths using realpath(3)
and then checks the path starts with "/proc/sys/"
At first I thought this might be a non-issue, but perhaps someone
could put a file into the sysctl configuration path and.. do
something? Anyway its a 8-line fix and makes things more correct.
References:
#179
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz>
The library added smaps_rollup fields in the referenced commit.
This commit exploits the new fields to give pss and uss options.
These options were first proposed back in 2015 by Petr Malat
and, with the library update, they are finally made it into ps.
Why use proportional or unique segment size? It is argued that
these give a better idea of the "real" memory usage of a process.
References:
commit 12543b6c76
issue #112https://www.freelists.org/post/procps/PSS-and-USS-support-for-pshttps://lwn.net/Articles/230975/
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz>
The pgrep code checks to see if the program is run as pkill or pidwait
and changes its behaviour accordingly. Some older versions of libtool
run the programs as lt-pkill and lt-pidwait which means the tests fail.
We add these two program names to the checks.
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz>
If you run slabtop with the -d option and then -o option the
delay gets set to zero and it runs forever. slabtop now checks
for this combination and errors.
Adding a DEJAGNU test also found that none of the slabtop
checks were running so they got added to the list and only the
ones that need /proc/slabinfo (if not readable) are skipped.
References:
#160
What to call the new library?
Keep using libprocps wouldn't do, its a very different library from
the programs' point of view. It would also mean we could have some
clashes around the packages (two package names, same library name).
The ancient procps used libproc or libproc-a.b.c where a.b.c was the
package version. Kept the revision numbers down (it was always 0.0.0)
but the name of the library changed.
So if we use libproc-2 is there a clash with an ancient procps?
procps v 2.0.0 was around in 1999 so it was 22 years ago, also the
name of the library would have been libproc-2.0.0.so not libproc-2.so
so we're fine with that.
libproc-2 seems to fit, our second major re-work of the procps
library.
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz>
While sysctl did change the order of /run and /etc to match
systemd in the referenced commit, the Debian bug report that
brought it to light was not documented.
References:
commit 24a1574f0ahttps://bugs.debian.org/950788
free, slabtop and uptime would happily take extra command line
arguments and doing nothing about them. The programs now check
optind after option processing and will give you usage screen
if there is anything extra.
References:
procps-ng/procps#181
For long lines from a process, watch would wrap them around to the
next. While this default option has it uses, sometimes you want to
just cut those long lines down.
watch has a -w flag which will truncate the lines to the number
of columns. A few simple lines to do this new trick.
I think I caught all the ANSI state correctly but there might be
a chance it bleeds to the next row.
References:
procps-ng/procps#182
The referenced commit the comm length was increased from 16 to 64
characters to handle the larger command names for things like kernel
threads.
However most user processes are limited to 15 characters which means
if you try something like ps -C myprogramisbiggerthansixteen this would
fail to match because /proc/<PID>/comm would only be myprogramisbigg
ps now checks the comm length and if it is 15 and if the given match
is 15 or more, it will only match the first 15 characters.
This is also how killall has worked for about a year.
Thanks to Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> for the note.
Copy of commit from master.
References:
commit 14005a371e
commit psmisc/psmisc@1188315cd0
commit 3e1c00d051
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz>
This patch fixes a nearly decade old bug discovered by
Frederik Deweerdt. His merge request shown below would
be an adequate solution except for iterative overhead.
This alternate patch will represent substantially less
overhead for an admittedly extremely rare possibility.
Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/merge_requests/114
And-thanks-to: Frederik Deweerdt <fdeweerdt@fastly.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Reverted the translation hint as the fields are used for both
normal and wide modes, so need to fit the smaller of the two.
Added NEWS item
References:
commit 01c1b2345e
Based on the command line option, use 'sigqueue'
instead of 'kill' to pass the integer value with
the signal.
References:
procps-ng/procps!32
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz>
With the two preceding 'catch up' patches, this newlib
NEWS can now be made identical to that master version.
[ it's assumed any releases prior to 3.3.15 have all ]
[ been represented under newlib (where appropriate). ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
sig.c had this odd logic where on non-Hurd systems it would undefine
SIGLOST. Fine for Hurd or amd64 Linux systems. Bad for a sparc which
has SIGLOST defined *and* is not Hurd.
Just check its defined, its much simpler.
--------------- Original Master Branch Commit Message:
Some non-glibc systems didn't have libio.h or __BEGIN_DECLS
Changes to make it more standard.
References:
issue #88
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
--------------- Original Master Branch Commit Message:
If pgrep is run with a non-program name match and there are
no matches, it segfaults.
The testsuite thinks zero bytes sent, and zero bytes sent
because the program crashed is the same :/
References:
commit 1aacf4af7fhttps://bugs.debian.org/894917
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
--------------- Original Master Branch Commit Message:
Update NEWS with the version
Add library API change into NEWS
Update c:r:a for library to 7:0:1
This means the current and age are incremented, so old programs can
use new library but not vice-versa as they won't have the numa*
functions.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The previous commit had one minor bug in it because the fields need
to be alphabetical and times comes after timeout.
Added NEWS item for this feature
Added another testsuite check for new flags in case they
disappear or go strange one day.
References:
commit 8a94ed6111
The previous two patches updated free, but needed a tweak and the tests
also needed to be updated. I've hand-calculated the results using bc and
both the testsuite and bc results equal what free prints out.
References:
commit 9365be7633procps-ng/procps#45
The commit referenced below put a setvbuf() before checking what
fopen() returned. If the file could not be opened then the file
handle was NULL at setvbuf() crashed.
setvbuf() is now called after checking what fopen() returns and only
when it was successful.
References:
procps-ng/procps#76
commit 58ae084c27
Those references below offer more detail regarding the
default startup changes beginning with version 3.3.10.
It is important to remember that all such changes were
supposed to impact only new users or users who had not
saved the personal config file (via that 'W' command).
However, I introduced a bug wherein the rcfile was not
fully honored. This gave the changes a bad reputation.
That bug was corrected in release 3.3.11 but the issue
of default startup options keeps resurfacing. And it's
clear there's no consensus on what should be included.
Our --disable-modern-top configure option is of little
help since it remains an all-or-nothing approach. What
we need is an answer offering unlimited customization.
So, this commit will provide distribution packagers or
system administrators with a much more flexible way to
set their own preferred startup default configuration.
A new rcfile is being introduced: '/etc/topdefaultrc',
whose format/content is the same as a personal rcfile.
Thus once a 'proper' enterprise configuration has been
established and saved via 'W', it can be copied to the
/etc/ directory. Thereafter, startup in the absence of
a saved rcfile will use that configuration as default.
Now if a distribution packager or system administrator
wishes to expose their users to some of top's advanced
capabilities they can do so gradually. Perhaps setting
up graph mode for summary area task and memory display
while retaining the %CPU sort could be tried. Or maybe
showing colors, but better customized for a particular
terminal emulator. Such possibilities are now endless.
[ in exploiting this new capability, i hope that the ]
[ other windows (alt display mode) aren't overlooked ]
Reference(s):
. Sep, 2014 - Not fully honoring rcfile bug discussed
https://www.freelists.org/post/procps/top-saved-rcfile-bug
. Oct, 2014 - Attempt to defend new startup defaults
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1153049
. Jul, 2015 - Forest vs. %CPU views discussion
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/6
. Oct, 2017 - Question the use of --disable-modern-top
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1499410
. Oct, 2017 - Forest vs. %CPU views discussion again
https://www.freelists.org/post/procps/Forest-mode-by-default-in-top-seems-a-bit-strange
. Dec, 2017 - Rehash of 3.3.10 startup defaults change
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/78
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
The disk partition format translation hint, the actual text and the
printf statements were all diagreeing with each other. This meant
the disk partition output from vmstat was a mess.
Now all the titles and values line up and everything is right-aligned
which looks better than some half-hearted attempt at center-aligned
for titles and right-aligned for values.
Thanks to @goeran for the heads-up in #69
Until this patch, top falsely assumed that there would
always be some (small) amount of physical memory after
subtracting 'used' and 'available' from the total. But
as the issue referenced below attests, a sum of 'used'
and 'available' might exceed that total memory amount.
I'm not sure if this is a problem with our calculation
of the 'used' amount, a flaw in the kernel 'available'
algorithms or some other reason I cannot even imagine.
Anyway, this patch protects against such a contingency
through the following single line addition of new code
. if (pct_used + pct_misc > 100.0 || pct_misc < 0) ...
The check for less than zero is not actually necessary
as long as the source numbers remain unsigned. However
should they ever become signed, we'll have protection.
[ Most of the changes in this commit simply separate ]
[ a variable's definition from its associated logic. ]
Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/64
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
For the past 3 years top has fully honored that locale
LC_NUMERIC setting which impacts his refresh interval.
For the past nearly 5 years top has saved that refresh
value in a locale independent form in his config file.
With this commit we'll intentionally break top so that
a comma or period will be accepted for the radix point
regardless of what that LC_NUMERIC may have suggested.
The current locale LC_NUMERIC will, however, determine
how the delay interval is displayed in the 'd' prompt.
[ This position is better than the approach employed ]
[ by those coreutils 'sleep' and 'timeout' programs. ]
[ Both claim to permit floating point arguments. But ]
[ neither one will accept the comma separator should ]
[ the locale be a country that in fact uses a comma. ]
Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/merge_requests/50
Prototyped by: Jan Rybar <jrybar@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This was supposed to be just a cherry-pick of the referenced
commit. However there were two problems:
1. kill code was moved out to its own file
2. strtosig() had a latent bug where signal numbers were not
converted to names.
Original note:
kill -lHUP would work correctly, but kill -l HUP would not.
The list option in kill was hit by a quirk of getopt_long where an
option with an optional argument would not attempt to get the argument
beyond the space, even though a mandatory argument would do that.
The fix is a kludge to scan to the next argument and if it looks
like something we can use, use it. Lucky for us, the list option is
one where parsing can stop immediately.
Thanks to Brian Vandenberg for the way forward.
References:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1052746/getopt-does-not-parse-optional-arguments-to-parametershttps://bugs.debian.org/854407
commit 537cea324b121f54744369425332c256aa84a181
There exists the possibility that a 'putp' call can be
issued before the 'setupterm' invocation has occurred,
as is reflected in a bugzilla report referenced below.
Strangely, such a SEGV isn't always triggered as logic
would suggest it ought to be. I experienced a fault in
these environments with the associated curses version:
. archlinux, procps-ng 3.3.12, ncurses 6.0.20170429
. fedora-25, procps-ng 3.3.10, ncurses 6.0.20160709
. opensuse-42.2, procps-ng 3.3.9, ncurses 5.9.20140201
. gentoo, procps-ng 3.3.12, ncurses 6.0.20150808
. slackw-14.2, procps-ng 3.3.12, ncurses 6.0.20160910
Whereas under these environments there was no problem:
. ubuntu-17.04, procps-ng 3.3.12, ncurses 6.0.20160625
. debian-test, procps-ng 3.3.12, ncurses 6.0.20161126
. mageia-5.1, procps-ng 3.3.9, ncurses 5.9.20140323
[ as an aside, the expected result in the bug report ]
[ is incorrect and should mention the '1' parameter. ]
[ however, until release 3.3.13 when the '1' becomes ]
[ a valid switch, numbers are not detected when used ]
[ with any switch which doesn't require an argument. ]
[ you're welcome to treat that as a separate bugglet ]
Reference(s):
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1450429
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
If built without ./configure --disable-modern-top, the
program displays each cpu individually providing there
is sufficient vertical screen real estate. For massive
SMP environments this will necessitate use of a config
file where the cpu summary toggle ('1') could be saved
via the 'W' command. But, an rcfile may not be viable.
So this commit introduces a '1' command line switch to
emulate exactly the effects of the interactive toggle.
And since it is our first numeric switch some existing
parsing logic had to be changed slightly. Such changes
are, in truth, an improvement. For example, instead of
seeing "inappropriate '2'" with ./top -2 we'll now see
the vastly more appropriate error "unknown option '2'.
References(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/55
[ this patch has been adapted from the master branch ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
In their 3.2.7 version of top, Redhat introduced an -M
switch to automatically scale Summary Area memory data
to avoid truncation (and the resulting '+' indicator).
The procps-ng top does not employ suffixes with memory
data nor does it allow for different scaling with each
separate value. Rather, scaling appears at line start.
If built without ./configure --disable-modern-top, the
Summary Area memory will be scaled at GiB which should
lessen chance of truncation. Otherwise KiB was used to
reflect such memory, increasing the truncation chance.
And while 'W' can be used to preserve some appropriate
scaling value, there are arguments against such rcfile
approaches as cited in the issue and bug report below.
So this commit will bump the Summary Area memory scale
factor from KiB to MiB when using --disable-modern-top
as a concession to that Redhat bug report noted below.
And it also introduces a new command line switch which
can force any desired scaling regardless of the rcfile
or which ./configure option might have been specified.
[ for top's help text we'll show 'E' as if it were a ]
[ switch without arguments in order to keep the help ]
[ text displayable without wrap in an 80x24 terminal ]
[ the man page, however, will show all k-e arguments ]
Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/53https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1034466
[ this patch has been adapted from the master branch ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
After much reflection I've come to the conclusion that
displaying 3 decimal places (usually) when memory data
had been scaled is no longer optimal with today's ever
increasing amounts. And given that not all task memory
fields are the same widths, inconsistencies can easily
arise as illustrated and discussed in the issue below.
Instead of unilaterally reducing the number of decimal
places, this commit will sneak in such a change via an
existing configure option that was very likely unused.
The former 'disable-wide-memory' option has now become
'enable-wide-memory', which can be used if the current
behavior (3 decimal places) is preferred. Without that
option, whenever memory is scaled beyond KiB, just one
decimal place will be shown in Summary and Task areas.
And Task area field width will no longer be changed by
this revised configure option. Instead, all such field
widths will now be fixed at the former maximum values.
Reference(s):
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/50
[ this patch has been adapted from the master branch ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Original report:
When trying kill a process with insufficient privileges (see blow),
pkill displays the error message “... failed: Operation not permitted”,
but returns 0. Surely it should return 3?
$ pkill syslogd ; echo $?
pkill: killing pid 373 failed: Operation not permitted
0
Return value 0 means one of more things matched. For a pgrep (which
shares code with pkill) this makes sense, there was a match. It seems
wrong for pkill to return 0 when it in fact could not do what you told
it to. However return value 3 means a fatal error and it's not fatal.
Looking at other programs when trying to kill things it cannot kill.
shell kill returns 1, procps kill returns 1, killall returns 1, skill
returns 0 (and says it was successful!, ah well poor old skill)
The consensus seems to be that you return 1 if you cannot kill it, even
if you found it. In other words the return value for both not found and
not able to kill it is the same.
pkill only returns 0 if something was killed. This means we found a
match AND the kill() system call worked too.
References:
https://bugs.debian.org/852758
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
This commit will resolve the RedHat Bugzilla #1322111.
[ import from identical commit against master branch ]
[ but without trailing whitespace, thank you so much ]
Imported by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
While a Debian bug report referenced below was limited
to the 'eip' and 'esp' fields, this patch also extends
address width adaptations to some other addresses too.
[ and, we do so in a far less invasive manner than a ]
[ redhat approach shown below adding two new fields! ]
Reference(s):
. new debian bug report
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=846361
. old redhat solution
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=244152
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
This just brings the newlib branch NEWS into line with
the current version from our master branch since those
changes have already been incorporated in this branch.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Both watch and free used the locale to determine the required delay
interval for subsequent updates. It's preferable to not care about
locale and accept both 12.34 and 12,34 as meaning 12 seconds and
340 microseconds.
References:
https://bugs.debian.org/692113
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
The procps library attempts to work out the tty of a process
through several methods. For things like /dev/tty123 or
/dev/foo it works fine.
For tty devices that put the minor number in a directory
of the major name this fails. So then we have to fallback
to stating things like the processes STDERR and try again.
Considering a lot of processes sit on ttys such as
/dev/pts/3 this is a lot of wasted time. At the point of
entering driver_name we know "/dev/pts" and we know "3"
we just didn't join them up the right way as this is old
code.
This change now looks for /dev/pts/3 as well. It does it
after looking for /dev/pts3 so the behaviour is the same.
References:
https://bugs.debian.org/770215
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
Shell kill would report a problem if you tried to kill a process
while procps kill was silent. This meant it looked like kill worked
when it actually failed.
References:
commit 07642b8ea6https://bugs.debian.org/733172
A difference in behaviour between the sysvinit and procps pidof
was that the procps one would sometimes not find process that
the sysvinit one did.
The difference is that if a space is found in argv[0] then sysvinit
would look at cmd for a match. This isn't perfect and more of a
best guess but does often work.
procps pidof now follows the same "standard". The most obvious
difference is with kde based processes and incoming ssh connections
with sshd.
References:
Commit 3f5b75035e
GitLab issue #4https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/issues/4https://github.com/limingth/sysvinit/blob/master/sysvinit-2.88dsf/src/killall5.c#L800
If SELINUX is enabled but the machine is using another MAC system
(like apparmor), ps will fallback to just parsing
"/proc/%d/attr/current", otherwise the label/context would not
be properly displayed in that case.
References:
https://bugs.debian.org/786956
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
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>
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>
pmap would previously print the process name if
/proc/PID/smaps could be opened, even if subsequent
reads failed. This actually occurs with other users
PIDs.
Kernel 3.18rc1 introduced a change where the file could
not been opened, meaning pmap -X 1 previously showed
the process name and nothing else but NOW shows nothing
make check failed because of this.
This change prints the process name even before trying to open
the file, returning it to previous behaviour.
Thanks to Vincent Bernat for some analysis.
References:
https://bugs.debian.org/775624https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=29a40ace841cba9b661711f042d1821cdc4ad47c
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
If skill was used with a signal number then it would intepret
the command line with last option interpreted twice. This often
confused the program so it just would end up killing nothing.
So this would work:
skill -t pts/0
This would not:
skill -9 -t pts/0
The kill path (in the same file) uses the same logic that has
been introduced here.
References: https://www.freelists.org/post/procps/skill-command-does-not-work-in-debian-7-releases
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
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>
