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Craig Small 2532b5d2dd ps: Add configurable date format for lstart field
The lstart field has been converted to use the strftime()
function so that it uses the locale. A new option -D
allows the user to define the format that would want this
field to show.

This may mean the field will be longer than it should be,
especially for French locales and the user defined field,
but the field length can be specified too.

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This commit started off making all the relevant fields use the
locale correctly so it could solve #226 as well. The issue
is there an implied restriction (or not) around
strftime("%b") and probably strftime("%a") for abbrievated month
and day names respectively.

English, and some/most other languages put an additional
restriction that all abbreviations are 3 characters long.
The problem is, not all languages do this.

French is a good example:
janv. févr. mars avril mai juin juil. août sept. oct. nov. déc.

Maybe strip the . at the end?
 That helps for some months, not all
Maybe take the first three characters?
 Several wide languages will have big issues
Maybe convert wide, get wcslen then use that.
 Even after that June "juin" and July "juil" are both "jui".

So, anything that uses the month (bsdstart,start) use ctime which
doesn't use locale. That solves the length issue.

stime does, which means it has this issue but its been like that
for years. You get stuff like this:

janv.13 482261
00:00 1151918
 2022 1458628
06:12 1957584

The only way to fix that would be to
 a)Make the field two characters longer
 b)Convert it back to ctime() which means everyone else
   loses.

This could have be oh-so easy if everyone made %b and %a three
(wide) characters everywhere.

References:
 procps-ng/procps#228
 procps-ng/procps#226

Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz>
2023-01-18 17:46:06 +11:00
doc misc: Move Documentation to doc 2022-08-29 18:38:52 +10:00
library tests: Fix type for check_fatal_proc_unmounted 2022-12-06 22:23:08 +11:00
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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

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If you need to report bugs, there is more details on the Bug Reporting page.

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