Jim Warner [Tue, 3 May 2022 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: turn off the 'Ctrl' bottom window after some keys
To complete the implementation of this new feature, we
must address the problem created by any commands which
offer their own full replacement displays. Should that
'Ctrl' bottom window be active, a return from any such
command leaves that lower portion of a terminal blank.
While we could issue a 'TAGGED_TOSS' macro right after
invoking any of those 4 (currently) affected commands,
it is wrong to make them aware of this 'tagged' stuff.
So, I'll opt for a more generalized solution whereby a
notice regarding a corrupted screen is broadcast. Then
the logic already aware of 'tagging' can deal with it.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Mon, 2 May 2022 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: allow sticky 'Ctrl' bottom window code by #define
After making that new bottom window more persistent, I
decided to offer a build choice for somebody who might
prefer to have the rug pulled out from under him while
reviewing window contents should some target task end.
If 'TAGGED_BRIEF' is defined old behavior is restored.
[ it should be noted, however, that when this define ]
[ is active we'll lose any benefit of onetime update ]
[ for the bottom window. just like with the original ]
[ behavior, it is repainted with every update cycle. ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Mon, 2 May 2022 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: trade just 1 'Ctrl' bottom window key association
I grew tired of inadvertently causing a premature exit
from top when all I wanted was to review some process'
environment variables. That 'V' key was just too close
to the 'C' key so the '^V' attempt became one of '^C'.
Well, not any more. Should a user wish to see a task's
environment, it will now require the '^N' combination.
[ it also now places G/U & N/K on a similar diagonal ]
Along the way, lower case Ctrl key combinations on the
help screen were all changed into upper case versions.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Mon, 2 May 2022 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: make the new 'Ctrl' bottom window behavior sticky
After using this new feature for awhile, I encountered
numerous times when that 'Ctrl' window would disappear
as I was studying the contents. This was caused by the
death of the target task but it made me think that the
window could/should persist until dismissed by a user.
Well, now it will persist until that same Ctrl key has
been struck a 2nd time or a different Ctrl key used to
target another process after positioning it on row #1.
So now, instead of that former 'moving target' type of
approach, this window is more of a 'snapshot' in time.
[ even more significant, perhaps, is the fact that a ]
[ Ctrl window will now be drawn exactly 1 time only, ]
[ instead of being repainted after each delay cycle. ]
[ this will remain true no matter how many intervals ]
[ might elapse while its contents were under review. ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
When support for the 'LIBPROC_HIDE_KERNEL' environment
variable was introduced, a deficiency was present that
allowed any rejected proc_t (i.e. a kworker thread) to
preserve the strdup'd 'cmd' value. That residual value
would prevent stat2proc or status2proc from updating a
cmd field with the proper program name for some tasks.
This patch just ensures a proc_t is freshened whenever
it has been rejected due to an active PT->hide_kernel.
[ again thanks to Björn for initiating the extension ]
Reference(s):
. original hide_kernel implementation
commit 2a7ec67ac806d91520f59c384684e2332774368b
. original hide_kernel proposal
https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/merge_requests/147
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Sun, 1 May 2022 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: add a program name to 'Ctrl' bottom window header
This minor addition to that new 'Ctrl' feature is more
important than it seems. It's responsible for alerting
yours truly to the 'LIBPROC_HIDE_KERNEL' bug addressed
in the very next commit. All this while, program names
for some tasks would be mysteriously replaced with the
kernel 'kworker' names. However, customary clutter for
the top process display tended to obscure such a fact.
[ and, of course, to notice the problem in the first ]
[ place required one to have the command line toggle ]
[ 'off' or perhaps to toggle its state 'on' & 'off'. ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Sat, 30 Apr 2022 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: add variable width data display without scrolling
There are times when one might want to see some task's
particular variable width data. However, prior to this
commit, the only way was to first turn on a field then
scroll through it via repeated right arrow keystrokes.
[ this also required that field to be displayed last ]
Needless to say, given the potential length of some of
that variable data this could be extremely cumbersome.
Now with this patch, a Ctrl keystroke combination will
create a separate window at the bottom of the terminal
screen where such variable width data is seen in full.
[ the targeted task is the 1st task displayed, which ]
[ is a convention employed in some existing commands ]
[ the targeted data was determined by these Ctrl key ]
[ combinations: CtrlG = ctrl group; CtrlK = cmdline; ]
[ CtrlU = supplementary groups; plus CtrlV = environ ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Craig Small [Tue, 26 Apr 2022 12:04:05 +0000 (22:04 +1000)]
testsuite: Add check for shared memory
Created a test process test_shm that allocates a shared memory
segment and prints the segment ID. pmap testsuite runs pmap to
check that the segment is found.
The value returned by shmget() is the same value that is printed
in the fifth column /proc/<PID>/maps
Craig Small [Tue, 26 Apr 2022 11:18:03 +0000 (21:18 +1000)]
pmap: Don't reopen stdin for reading file
pmap uses freopen to read /proc/self/maps. There doesn't
seem to be a good reason to do this and if pmap has its
stdin previously closed then it fails.
signal: fix suspending ps when receving SIGTERM or SIGHUP
Call trace:
#0 __lll_lock_wait_private () at
../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/lowlevellock.S:95
#1 0x00007f95c059f9d7 in _L_lock_638 () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#2 0x00007f95c059f8b6 in _nl_expand_alias
#3 0x00007f95c059dad8 in _nl_find_domain
#4 0x00007f95c059d22e in __dcigettext
#5 0x00007f95c059c05f in __GI___dcgettext
#6 0x00000000004032b3 in signal_handler (signo=15) at display.c:54
#7 <signal handler called>
#8 __memcpy_sse2 () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/memcpy.S:104
#9 0x00007f95c05d9934 in __GI__IO_getline_info
#10 0x00007f95c05d99b8 in __GI__IO_getline
#11 0x00007f95c05e2a5d in __GI_fgets_unlocked
#12 0x00007f95c059f478 in read_alias_file
#13 0x00007f95c059f97a in _nl_expand_alias
#14 0x00007f95c059dad8 in _nl_find_domain
#15 0x00007f95c059d22e in __dcigettext
#16 0x00007f95c059c05f in __GI___dcgettext
#17 0x0000000000403a8d in reset_global () at global.c:410
#18 0x0000000000402605 in main at display.c:650
The above call trace happens when the ps process is suspending, and the
signal SIGTERM is sent to the ps process at the same time.
Just cancel the SIGTERM and SIGHUP handler when suspending to prevent
the problem.
Jim Warner [Sun, 24 Apr 2022 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: added provision for autogroup nice (AGNI) changes
When autogroups are active programs such as renice and
nice are basically useless because the nice value will
only affect the target task priority relative to other
processes in the same autogroup. So to accomplish what
we thought of as renice, /proc/<pid>/autogroup must be
changed. Altering a single member in an autogroup will
also affect every other member of that same autogroup.
Since top's renice provision ('r') suffers constraints
like those of the stand alone nice/renice programs, we
will now provide a means to manipulate that nice value
found within some process' /proc/<pid>/autogroup file.
[ to alter this file for other user's tasks requires ]
[ root privileges, as does setting a negative value. ]
[ however, unlike that 'r' command, this new command ]
[ allows raising *and* lowering all positive values. ]
Jim Warner [Fri, 15 Apr 2022 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
library: annotate header with tics/jiffies, <pids> api
To avoid potential user confusion, like that reflected
in the previous commit message, a short narrative will
be included in the header file as programmer comments,
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Fri, 15 Apr 2022 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
ps: improved three elapsed 'jiffies/tics' calculations
With openSUSE's tumbleweed release of procps-ng-4.0.0,
their source rpm contained a questionable patch. It is
ostensibly devoted to increasing the accuracy for %cpu
calculations in the ps program. However, in my opinion
it goes too far and is quite flawed for these reasons:
1. Six separate files were impacted instead of just 1.
2. While ps was the object, libproc-2 was changed too.
3. A header file's alphabetic item order was violated.
4. The library API and ABI were altered unnecessarily.
It should be noted that all the <pids> TIME items were
made 'real' when representing seconds so that they can
be converted into jiffies/tics if multiplied by hertz.
Thus, there was absolutely no justification for adding
a new PIDS_TICS_ELAPSED ull_int item to the interface.
As an example, assuming a hertz value of 100, there is
enough capacity in all of those 'TIME' seconds to hold
nearly 3 million years worth of tics without a loss of
precision whenever they are changed back into jiffies.
[ that's nine quadrillion seven trillion one hundred ]
[ ninety-nine billion two hundred fifty-four million ]
[ seven hundred forty thousand nine hundred ninety + ]
[ one! or more concisely, as: 9,007,199,254,740,991. ]
So, any need for increased accuracy in that ps program
can be realized within the single output.c file alone.
That's what will be accomplished with this new commit.
And for any doubters here's a 'double' capacity proof:
Jim Warner [Fri, 15 Apr 2022 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
library: tighten up some TIME calculations, <pids> api
This patch trades some recurring per-task calculations
for calculations performed once at get, select or reap
time. It was prompted by the openSUSE dif named below.
[ my next commit will deal more thoroughly with that ]
Jim Warner [Thu, 14 Apr 2022 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
library: eliminate redundant assignment, <meminfo> api
With the memset to zero of a 'new' meminfo_data struct
near the beginning of the meminfo_read_failed function
there's never a need to later set anything in it to 0.
[ who knows, our patch might even coax opensuse into ]
[ reevaluating that 4.0.0 'overflow' guy named below ]
Jim Warner [Wed, 13 Apr 2022 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
ps: that restored aix behavior gets its ultimate tweak
Now that this 'c' variable initial assignment has been
moved outside the looping code, there is no longer any
need to specifically check for space/comma when 'c' is
not '%'. So, let us eliminate those two lines of code.
[ i promise not to change this algorithm ever again! ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Tue, 12 Apr 2022 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: remove those winflags which restricted 'x' toggle
On occasion, even as the top author, I wonder why that
'x' toggle has stopped working. Of course, it actually
was working but a locate request ('L') or other filter
('O') operation was active and thus temporarily turned
if off. Such behavior is documented in top's man page.
Well, with this patch that 'x' suppression is no more.
[ the original justification, however, remains true. ]
[ but there's really only one character which causes ]
[ any potential trouble & i'm gonna' keep it secret. ]
[ besides, if a display is corrupted, there's always ]
[ that '=' key which restores things back to normal. ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Craig Small [Mon, 11 Apr 2022 07:09:53 +0000 (17:09 +1000)]
build-sys:
While the previous commit checked for a GNU environment so Hurd
compilied ok, this tripped up Cygwin. configure now explicitly tests
for the structure field rather than trying to guess through compilier
flags about what the environment tells us about signals.h
Jim Warner [Sun, 10 Apr 2022 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
library: fix 'smaps' bug preventing a build with clang
As a result of the issue referenced below, we'll trade
our homegrown offset generator for an 'offsetof' macro
found in the stddef.h header file. This pleases clang.
[ and thanks to Daniel Kolesa for the report and fix ]
. clang error message
proc/readproc.c:673:9: error: initializer element is not a compile-time constant
mkENT(Rss),
^~~~~~~~~~
proc/readproc.c:661:34: note: expanded from macro 'mkENT'
#define mkENT(F) { #F ":", -1, (int)((void*)&q->smap_ ## F - (void*)&q->fZERO) }
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Sat, 9 Apr 2022 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: raise %CPU maximum if large numbers of processors
It would appear that openSUSE was the first to release
procps-ng version 4.0.0 (in the tumbleweed distro). As
a result I checked their source rpm and found a couple
of patches I'm porting to newlib for the next release.
This particulate patch, with some changes, is openSUSE
patch 'procps-ng-3.3.10-large_pcpu.patch'. The changes
were strictly cosmetic. They involved whitespace only.
[ it should be noted that the net effect for raising ]
[ the maximum is to produce a '?' in the %CPU field. ]
[ that's because its width is fixed at five columns. ]
[ but at least the '?' won't distort actual results. ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Sat, 9 Apr 2022 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: ignore the SIGHUP signal if running in batch mode
It would appear that openSUSE was the first to release
procps-ng version 4.0.0 (in the tumbleweed distro). As
a result I checked their source rpm and found a couple
of patches I'm porting to newlib for the next release.
This particulate commit was a refactor of the openSUSE
patch 'procps-ng-3.3.8-bnc634840.patch'. Unfortunately
their original patch did not have the intended effect.
That was because the amended signal handling logic was
performed well before the command line parameters were
parsed. So the global 'Batch' flag was in its 0 state.
. what follows is the original openSUSE commit message
------------------------------------------------------
Do not setup SIGHUP signal handler if we are in the batch mode
Top enables a signal handler for the SIGHUP signal (loss of terminal). While
this makes sense for top's default interactive mode, it doesn't make any sense
for batch mode. If you run top in nohup just to collect data over time and
disconnect top finishes which is not what one would expect.
------------------------------------------------------
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Craig Small [Sat, 9 Apr 2022 04:18:28 +0000 (14:18 +1000)]
sysctl: print dotted keys again
When the globbing update was put into sysctl, you could no longer
simply use the keys because one key could potentially be
multiple paths once the glob expansion occured. Using the path
instead gave a unique output.
Except certain programs, such as salt, expected the output to use
the dotted path "kernel.hostname" and not "kernel/hostname".
We can no longer use the original key, so now for each path:
Copy the path
strip off /proc/
convert all / to .
The sysctl testsuite was also updated to check for a few different
types of conversion failures.
Jim Warner [Mon, 4 Apr 2022 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
ps: that restored aix behavior is now even more robust
With the commit referenced below a nasty bug affecting
aix parsing was swatted. Beyond the bug, the logic was
enhanced to disallow commas in the format string since
they would otherwise be shown with their field's data.
However, there remained many characters other than ','
that could survive the edits to then be shown adjacent
to the data. Well, with this patch they won't anymore!
[ along the way we will no longer try to forgive the ]
[ use of a double '%%' prefix since that resulted in ]
[ display of one '%' and field code instead of data. ]
Jim Warner [Wed, 30 Mar 2022 17:00:00 +0000 (12:00 -0500)]
ps: restore aix behavior while keeping an original fix
The commit shown below broke the aix behavior that Dr.
Fink recently reported. However, in the proposed patch
the old behavior, showing garbage when '%cpu' was used
with an invalid formatting option, would appear again.
So this patch, based on Werner's patch, goes the extra
distance to prevent that. Along the way we'll disallow
commas in the aix format str to prevent their display.
Reference(s):
https://www.freelists.org/post/procps/Procpsng-400-released-with-newlib,2
. Mar, 2022 - where aix bug was introduced
commit 81df85a1b528d4edb9ab98b37fb6c6244430b6c4
Prototyped-by: Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Tue, 29 Mar 2022 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: update one function prologue after rcfile changes
When top's rcfile was reorganized, trading that 'char'
based field representation for the 'int' scheme, there
was a function prologue that should have been changed.
Thus, this patch will correct that original oversight.
Craig Small [Tue, 22 Mar 2022 09:20:53 +0000 (20:20 +1100)]
testsuite: ps out tests more lenient
Sometimes due to race conditions or the way dejagnu gates the
output, or even there is another interesting process, the ps tests
sometimes fail. These changes make it a little more lenient without
losing the purpose of the test.
Craig Small [Mon, 21 Mar 2022 10:37:17 +0000 (21:37 +1100)]
build-sys: check depends on programs
For some unknown reason, make check doesn't depend on either
the check programs or the actual programs under test. This means
if you try to run make check right off the bat from a clean git
repositorty, it will fail as it won't be able to run the unbuilt
binaries.
Craig Small [Mon, 21 Mar 2022 10:33:11 +0000 (21:33 +1100)]
build-sys: Repeat man pages into man-po Makefile
I'm not sure why this is needed, but if the dist_man_MANS
variable is not copied from the top-level Makefile down to the
man-po one then make dist from a clean archive will not work.
I'm sure someone with better automake magic than me can make
this more elegant but for now it works if a little ugly.
Jim Warner [Sat, 19 Mar 2022 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: fix initial cursor position for fields management
When we transitioned from 'char' based fields to 'int'
proper initial cursor positioning (highlight) was lost
in the 'fields_utility' function. The highlight should
appear on the current sort field. Instead, however, it
was often positioned on the first field listed or some
completely different field other than that sort field.
So this patch will restore the master branch behavior.
[ and on the assumption that a sort field is visible ]
[ we will search first for a field with the 'on' bit ]
Jim Warner [Fri, 18 Mar 2022 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: add more robustness to logic for reading a rcfile
At this point I don't know if the Rc.id ever carried a
value of 'b', 'c', 'd' or 'e' in a public release. But
I do know that those values ought not to be recognized
in any configuration file. Now they won't be for sure.
[ the net result is that now a user with such a file ]
[ will see the 'incompatible rcfile' message instead ]
[ of that misleading 'window entry corrupt' message. ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Thu, 17 Mar 2022 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: do not add an extra line when rewritting a rcfile
When the configuration file is first written, there is
just the normal single newline which ends that rcfile.
However, when any existing rcfile was rewritten, there
was one extra newline '\n' character added at the end.
This will happen just once. The file does NOT continue
to grow with the extra blank lines always being added.
Anyway, this patch will put an end to such a practice.
[ along the way i fixed an unrelated whitespace oops ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Mon, 14 Mar 2022 05:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0500)]
top: swat a bug with 3.2.8 support for field additions
This new integer based version of 'fieldscur' deviated
a bit too much from that character based logic when it
comes to ancient 3.2.8 rcfile support. This results in
an inappropriate extra field shown as the last column.
If we're truly dealing with 20 year old 3.2.8 rcfiles,
it's important the 3.3.9 extension (RCF_PLUS_H) not be
concatenated to what was read. That's because a search
for the special SUSE characters will always find a '\'
in the 26th position (after normal 3.2.8 'fieldscur').
[ for symmetry, we'll also avoid RCF_PLUS_J (3.3.17) ]
All other 'old' rcfiles are transformed without error.
Reference(s):
. Mar, 2022 - 3.2.8 support restores
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Sun, 13 Mar 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
top: honor old rcfiles after change to field additions
This patch will restore the previously abandoned older
rcfile support. To be honest, I wasn't sure this would
be possible given the vast difference between formats.
But after some very intense hacking our newlib top can
again fully support seamless migration from some older
'char' based file to this new 'int' based file format.
[ top even supports a 20+ year old 3.2.8 config file ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Sun, 13 Mar 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
top: bump current upper max to 100 for field additions
As I speculated in a prior commit, this patch will now
demonstrate how simple it is to extend the upper limit
of supportable fields. With these changes we'll now go
from facing the old limit of 86 to a new limit of 100.
No other changes are needed nor is any logic impacted.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Sun, 13 Mar 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
top: provide an unlimited capacity for field additions
With each of those references shown below, the maximum
number of fields was increased. However, with a 'char'
based implementation we're nearing the upper limits of
total displayable fields. We currently use 76 of a max
of 86 fields. With extra effort, 94 might be possible.
But 94 is the absolute upper limit of possible fields!
Moreover, the current implementation yields characters
that were unprintable in the rcfile. This could become
an issue with that 'inspect' feature when/if an rcfile
is edited to add entries (as opposed to using 'echo').
So, with this commit the internals of field management
has been completely reimagined. It is now based on the
integer type, not a character. And whereas that former
design used the high order bit to show the 'on' state,
thus yielding an unprintable character, the new design
uses the low order bit for the state. As such, numbers
will be kept small and an even number will be an 'off'
field whereas an odd number will become an 'on' state.
The bottom line is that this new design will afford an
unlimited number of new fields while keeping an rcfile
completely free of that potential unprintable garbage.
And it is embarrassingly easy to extend the maximum of
supportable fields from the currently implemented 100.
Who knows, maybe a future patch will prove this point.
[ unless a subsequent commit proves otherwise, given ]
[ the dramatic differences in rcfile contents, i had ]
[ to abandon the practice of supporting old rcfiles. ]
Jim Warner [Sat, 12 Mar 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
top: warn of man page impact if 'USE_X_COLHDR' defined
This warning was added after discovering openSUSE uses
the option with (at least) their 'tumbleweed' version.
The man document sections impacted are: 4e, 5d and 5e.
That is where it was asserted sort column highlighting
would be temporarily turned off if search ('L') and/or
filtering ('O') is active. This option makes it false.
[ shame on suse for not also correcting the man page ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Sun, 6 Mar 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
library: introduced a 'UTILIZATION_C' item, <pids> api
Some items in the <pids> API carry a '_C' suffix which
implies such values include reaped children. So, we'll
now extend this practice to that new UTILIZATION item.
Jim Warner [Sun, 6 Mar 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
ps: enabled sort with 'utilization' related specifiers
When %CUU was added, in the commit referenced below, I
stated that 4 similar specifiers already existed. Well
I misspoke since there is actually 5 including 'util'.
Each of those fields had no sort capability. Since the
values are dynamically calculated, they were forced to
use 'PIDS_extra' as the format_array 'sr' designation.
Now each will use 'PIDS_UTILIZATION' and be sort-able.
[ yes, sometimes the calculated values could contain ]
[ reaped children while the sort field does not. but ]
[ such disparity depends on obscure bsd/gnu options. ]
Jim Warner [Sun, 6 Mar 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
top: enhanced 'scale_tics' function for Ctrl-E scaling
When scale_tics was refactored and then Ctrl-E support
added to top, the complete range of scaling values was
not visible. Namely, a single 'd' (days) & 'w' (weeks)
was never seen with ^E. With this commit they will be.
Jim Warner [Fri, 4 Mar 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
ps: swat insidious bug with the %cpu' format specifier
Whoa, my head really hurts but this commit should help
with a speedy recovery hopefully, after it is applied.
If the '%cpu' field is used as a format specifier with
that 'o' option, you will encounter a SIGSEGV if there
is also an invalid argument on that same command line.
For example, try 'ps/pscommand -o %cpu,x' with newlib.
With any format specifier other than the '%cpu', there
is an error message, as would happen with '-o pcpu,x'.
For a 3.3.17 version of ps, there's no abend. Instead,
the program will just display a bunch of gobbledygook.
This boo-boo was found to exist as far back as v3.3.0.
[ ok, i am starting to feel very much better already ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Fri, 4 Mar 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
ps: exploit the library addition for 'cpu utilization'
This just parallels the top program by adding that new
library PIDS_UTILIZATION item to the ps repertoire. It
should be noted, however, that the new %CUU field is a
little redundant. I mean, ps already has 4 such fields
implemented identified as: '%cpu', 'c', 'cp' & 'pcpu'.
Oh well, at least the newest one offers a little value
added in the form of extra precision. We'll follow the
top lead and display results in the form of: '##.###'.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Thu, 3 Mar 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
library: guard against 'inf/nan' for 'cpu utilization'
When preparing the ps program for a %CUU field, it was
revealed the PIDS_UTILIZATION item may sometimes yield
a result of 'nan' or 'inf' for that ps program itself.
Apparently, it was caused by the short lived nature of
such a one-shot program. And, while this anomaly could
be handled in ps, the solution belongs in the library.
So, I reworked an item's algorithm to avoid this oops.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Thu, 3 Mar 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
doc: document 'scale_tics' function for Ctrl-E scaling
[ i also tweaked that 'STARTED' narrative just a bit ]
[ since its original wording implied the value could ]
[ change, whereas it's fixed when a task is started. ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Thu, 3 Mar 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
top: extended 'scale_tics' function for Ctrl-E scaling
That normalization of the 'scale_tics' function in the
prior commit convinced me that I won't please everyone
with my arbitrary choices for the scaling transitions.
So, this patch will provide the users with a means for
setting their own scaling transition points with a new
toggle. Ctrl-E was chosen since the 'e/E' toggles were
already present as a means of scaling (albeit memory).
[ this toggle will also serve an educational purpose ]
[ by allowing one to see all the scaling conventions ]
The scaling a user establishes is saved in the rcfile.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Thu, 3 Mar 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
top: refactor 'scale_tics' function for better scaling
This patch refactors the 'scale_tics' function to more
closely parallel uptime shown on the first line of the
summary area. The old logic has been preserved through
the header file's new #define SCALE_FORMER provision.
However, the former logic was actually a big disaster.
These are some potential problems with that old logic:
1. With respect to our time fields top no longer deals
solely with cpu time. So, the old limits of '68 weeks'
could possibly be insufficient to reflect those times.
2. Given the widths of top's new time fields, the code
never got beyond scaling to hours. For example, with a
ridiculously large span of 19 years, the scaled result
would then be shown as '167832h'. We never reached the
days ('6993d') or even the weeks ('999w') equivalents.
3. Similarly, with that 'TIME+' field and a large tics
value, results would then appear as 'MMMMMM:SS' rather
than the more meaningful 'HH:MM:SS' or days and hours.
So henceforth we will adopt these scaling conventions:
Note that, unlike our former scaling logic, that 'MMM'
portion won't be allowed to grow unconditionally. It's
limited (arbitrarily?) to 360 total minutes (6 hours).
Additionally, the 'HH' guy will be limited to 96 hours
(4 days) while that 'D' limit was set at 14 (2 weeks).
Whenever a limit is hit, scaling will advance a level.
Jim Warner [Sun, 27 Feb 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
top: added some elapsed running time 'ELAPSED' support
When the 'STARTED' field was added, in the message for
the commit referenced below, I explained why 'ELAPSED'
shouldn't be implemented though it might be preferred.
Well, after climbing out of my box to do a little more
thinking, I came up with the way to add that 'ELAPSED'
field while avoiding the possible performance penalty.
Just do not show what would change with every refresh!
If we do not show the seconds portion of a scaled tics
amount then the problem goes away. And this comes with
an additional benefit. The HH,MM (hours,minutes) style
then is readily compared with that system uptime shown
as HH:MM. The only difference is just the comma/colon.
[ assuming the top uptime/load average toggle was on ]
Jim Warner [Sun, 27 Feb 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
top: tweaked the recently introduced 'STARTED' support
When the 'STARTED' field was added, the width was made
the same as the 'TIME+' field. Thus, a full time could
be shown (which then included hundredths of a second).
That kind of granularity is totally unnecessary. After
all, this column is potentially confusing enough since
it is so counterintuitive. So, this commit will reduce
the width of the field with some help from scale_tics.
Henceforth it will not include those ol' centiseconds.
[ along the way let's expand the man document with a ]
[ a remainder about content representation & scaling ]
Jim Warner [Sun, 27 Feb 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
library: trade 'float' type for a 'double', <pids> api
While we really do not need the extra precision, we'll
trade that recently introduced float type for a double
for efficiency on a 64 bit platform. Additionally, the
UTILIZATION algorithm was tweaked producing less code.
The net result is four fewer machine instructions with
a reduction of 14 total bytes in that function's size.
Jim Warner [Fri, 25 Feb 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
top: added fields for 'start time' & 'cpu utilization'
This patch will exploit some new library capabilities.
[ one will raise eyebrows, the other likely will not ]
A new 'STARTED' field was added which shows the time a
process started after system boot. As such the largest
interval represents the most recently started process.
This is the field that will likely be questioned since
it's somewhat counterintuitive. But were we to instead
use TIME_ELAPSED, the value will change with every top
refresh. This will defeat any PUFF macro optimization.
The new '%CUU' field will probably be better received.
It represents the cpu usage over the life of the task.
When a process was showing high %CPU usage, this field
can be used to determine if it's an anomaly or normal.
[ and as with %CPU, %CUU shows a '?' when running in ]
[ a namespace when /proc was mounted with subset=pid ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Fri, 25 Feb 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
library: added important new functionality, <pids> api
This commit introduces some new capabilities available
in libproc-2 under the <PIDS> interface. Along the way
errors impacting some item values have been corrected.
The following summarizes the major changes being made.
1. The PIDS_TIME_START item was represented as seconds
since system boot but really held tics since boot. And
some programs properly divided it by Hertz to actually
yield seconds while others acted as if it already was.
So, now we have a new PIDS_TICS_BEGAN field and all of
the 'TIME' fields properly reflect seconds. With those
'TIME' fields, the type was changed to 'float/real' so
one could convert it back to tics without loss of some
centiseconds reflected in the Hertz guy (usually 100).
2. The boot_seconds was established in procps_pids_new
meaning it was fixed/unchanging. As a result, one item
(PIDS_TIME_ELAPSED) was rendered useless. So now, each
of the three retrieval functions establishes a current
boot_seconds well before the set functions are called.
3. Added a PIDS_UTILIZATION item that will provide the
CPU usage over the life of a process, as a percentage.
4. Added PIDS_TIME_ALL_C for symmetry with the similar
item called PIDS_TICS_ALL_C (which reflects raw tics).
5. That 'derived from' notation has been added to some
additional header items to reflect their true origins.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Thu, 24 Feb 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
doc: minor tweaks affecting three newlib man documents
. add the proper function names to the procps_pids man
page when discussing the 'LIBPROC_HIDE_KERNEL' feature
under recently added 'ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE(S)' section
. ensure the 'SEE ALSO' references are comma delimited
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Wed, 23 Feb 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
top: just trade an assignement for a manifest constant
The assignment was originally created to reduce length
of one line of code (i.e. for readability). But we can
achieve this objective without adding executable code.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Mon, 14 Feb 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
top: trade that 'strncpy' for more efficient 'memccpy'
This patch was prompted by the merge request for pgrep
referenced below. In top's case, any performance gains
will be minimal since the now defunct strncpy was only
employed for termcap rebuilds after interacting with a
user (+ 1 other non-termcap related user interaction).
[ golly, strncpy always calls at least two functions ]
[ but usually calls a total of 3. on the other hand, ]
[ memccpy will only call a maximum of two functions. ]
And thanks to Baruch Siach for these strncpy insights.
Jim Warner [Sun, 13 Feb 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
top: tweak a couple task_show() macros for consistency
There was a potential problem with these macros should
that '#define SCROLLVAR_NO' be active and they were to
appear in an 'if' statement (like is necessary for the
master branch version of top under that EU_CMD label).
[ now they're always usable without requiring an ';' ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Sat, 12 Feb 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
top: let's eliminate some additional compiler warnings
This patch eliminates those warnings referenced below.
They are sometimes associated with an obscure #define.
We'll also corrrect one header file function prototype
so it will aggree with the actual function definition.
Reference(s):
top.c: In function 'adj_geometry':
top.c:1874:20: warning: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: 'int' and 'long unsigned int' [-Wsign-compare]
1874 | if (Screen_cols < DOUBLE_limit) Curwin->rc.double_up = 0;
| ^
top.c: In function 'zap_fieldstab':
top.c:2359:26: warning: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: 'int' and 'unsigned int' [-Wsign-compare]
2359 | if (wtab[EU_CPN].wmin < digits) {
| ^
top.c:2365:26: warning: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: 'int' and 'unsigned int' [-Wsign-compare]
2365 | if (wtab[EU_NMA].wmin < digits) {
| ^
top.c: In function 'keys_summary':
top.c:5128:45: warning: comparison of integer expressions of different signedness: 'int' and 'long unsigned int' [-Wsign-compare]
5128 | if (w->rc.double_up && Screen_cols < DOUBLE_limit) {
| ^
top.c: In function 'sum_tics':
top.c:5605:22: warning: unused variable 'num_syst' [-Wunused-variable]
5605 | int ix, num_user, num_syst;
| ^~~~~~~~
top.c:5605:12: warning: unused variable 'num_user' [-Wunused-variable]
5605 | int ix, num_user, num_syst;
| ^~~~~~~~
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Fri, 11 Feb 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
top: attempt to clarify the 'iokey' parameter meanings
The 'iokey' function's parameter 'action' was utilized
with literal numbers in the calling functions. So this
change will replace those literal numbers with #define
constants which, one hopes, will clarify their impact.
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Craig Small [Tue, 1 Feb 2022 05:46:09 +0000 (16:46 +1100)]
free: Use wstr width and not length
The previous commit used the value from mbstowcs() to work out
the spacing required, as printf() got it completely wrong.
However, for alignment of text you don't use the string length
but the string width.
As the referenced website says:
Use wcslen when allocating memory for wide characters, and use wcswidth to
align text.
Which is what free does now. Chinese is still off by one but I cannot
see why this is so. It's close enough for now. If someone can work
it out, I'd love to know what the fix is.
As a side effect, #213 is fixed because we are putting the correct
number of spaces in.
French is still an issue (see #24 ) but this is because the string is
too long!
Craig Small [Mon, 31 Jan 2022 07:14:12 +0000 (18:14 +1100)]
free: Fix first column justification
free has for many years had a problem with translated header columns
or the first column. This is because printf("-9s", str) doesn't use
the wide length of the string but the char length meaning they are
mis-aligned.
Using the mbstowcs() function to get the wide length and then
a precision parameter to append the right number of spaces after the
number means we get what we need.
Jim Warner [Wed, 26 Jan 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
top: tweak the heck out of some command line help text
This patch began as just an attempt to make any option
which also included an argument a little more readable
by adding one space before the '=ARGUMENT' convention.
[ by the way, i don't agree with most of those other ]
[ procps-ng programs that use an '<arg>' convention. ]
[ it's too easily misread as an 'optional' argument. ]
[ top uses a convention like that found in coreutils ]
[ albeit now with one extra space before the equals. ]
In adjusting those arguments it was apparent that many
explanations already lined up nicely at the right hand
margin. So, this commit will force right-justification
with all explanations (as we do with commit messages).
[ and as a final challenge, for those options taking ]
[ an argument, that argument was repeated within the ]
[ explanation and made the rightmost item on a line. ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
Jim Warner [Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:14:14 +0000 (14:14 -0600)]
top: add visual clue when focus toggle ('F') is active
When in forest view mode, that focus toggle ('F') is a
useful tool occasionally. But, if a focused parent has
enough cloned siblings to exceed screen rows, it could
be hard to remember that such a toggle remains active.
So, this patch will provide a subtle visual clue added
to the leftmost position in the COMMAND column. Now if
the focus toggle was active, regardless of total tasks
affected, the users will always know when it's active.
Jim Warner [Thu, 13 Jan 2022 19:13:13 +0000 (13:13 -0600)]
top: banish one more warning for '-Wformat-truncation'
In the commit referenced below, I fixed what I thought
was all the top 'truncation' warnings. For that commit
I had been using CFLAGS='-ggdb -Wall'. However, if one
uses just a vanilla './configure', then a hidden extra
warning will surface. This patch will finally kill it.
[ thanks a bunch gcc - we love this kind of behavior ]
Jim Warner [Sat, 8 Jan 2022 06:00:00 +0000 (00:00 -0600)]
sysctl: eliminate a warning '-Wmisleading-indentation'
[ and in the affected function, we'll also eliminate ]
[ all those f**king tab characters making a hot mess ]
[ of any attempt at a properly formatted C function! ]
[ plus i adjusted a little non-tab misalignment too! ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
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