Command line and full screen utilities for browsing procfs, a "pseudo" file system dynamically generated by Linux to provide information about the status of entries in its process table.
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Many of our item enumerator identifiers are very long, especially in that <VMSTAT> module. Additionally, they all contain the exact same universal 'PROCPS_' prefix. The origins for this are likely found in the desire to avoid name clashes with other potential include files. But with procps-ng newlib, we've probably gone way too far. Did 'PROCPS_PIDS_TICS_SYSTEM' actually offer more protection against clash than 'PIDS_TICS_SYSTEM' does? I don't think so. Besides, no matter how big that name becomes, one can never guarantee they'll never be some clash. And, conversely, extremely short names will not always create conflict. Of course, in either case when some clash occurs, one can always #undef that problem. Thus, this commit will eliminate that 'PROCPS_' prefix making all of those enum identifiers a little shorter. And, we'll still be well above some ridiculously short (criminally short) names found in some common headers: - - - - - - - - - - <term.h> - 'tab', 'TTY', etc - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - <search.h> - 'ENTER', ENTRY', 'FIND', etc ------------------------------------------------------ Finally, with this as a last of the wholesale changes, we will have established the naming conventions below: . only functions will begin with that 'procps_' prefix . exposed structures begin with the module/header name . item enumerators begin like structs, but capitalized . other enumerators work exactly like item enumerators . macros and constants begin just like the enumerators ------------------------------------------------------ Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net> |
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| testsuite | ||
| top | ||
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| INSTALL.md | ||
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| README.md | ||
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| tload.1 | ||
| tload.c | ||
| translate-man.sh | ||
| uptime.1 | ||
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procps
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
Reporting Bugs
There are a few ways of reporting bugs or feature requests:
- Your distributions bug reporter. If you are using a distribution your first port of call is their bug tracker. This is because each distribution has their own patches and way of dealing with bugs. Also bug reporting often does not need any subscription to websites.
- GitLab Issues - To the left of this page is the issue tracker. You can report bugs here.
- Email list - We have an email list (see below) where you can report bugs. The problem with this method is bug reports often get lost and cannot be tracked. This is especially a big problem when its something that will take time to resolve.
If you need to report bugs, there is more details on the Bug Reporting page.
Email List
The email list for the developers and users of procps is found at http://www.freelists.org/archive/procps/ This email list discusses the development of procps and is used by distributions to also forward or discuss bugs.