[procps] procps-3.1.6

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[ANNOUNCE] procps 3.1.6

This release isn't terribly important. I fixed a memory
leak in top, "ps s" on the 2.5.61 kernel, and a rare crash
when showing WCHAN. You can build with gcc 2.91.xx again.
Now ps can select by PPID, watch can hide the title, and
"ps -C foo" compares more characters. The README is better.
For sparc64 users, a 32-bit procps should be able to handle
64-bit processes.

For those of you still upgrading from procps 2.0.xx releases,
you can expect:

* top can sort by any column (old sort keys available too)
* top can select a single user to display
* top can be put in multi-window mode and/or color mode
* vmstat has the -s option, as found on UNIX and BSD systems
* vmstat has the -f option, as found on UNIX and BSD systems
* watch doesn't eat the first blank line by mistake
* vmstat uses a fast O(1) algorithm on 2.5.xx kernels
* pmap command is SunOS-compatible
* vmstat shows IO-wait time
* pgrep and pkill can find the oldest matching process
* sysctl handles the Linux 2.5.xx VLAN interfaces
* top shows IO-wait time if-and-only-if your kernel computes it
* most programs 30% to 300% faster (tested on a 450 MHz MPC7400)
* ps has a new "-F" format (very nice, like DYNIX/ptx has)
* ps with proper BSD process selection
* better handling of very long uptimes

There's a pro...@li... mailing list you can
use for feature requests, bug reports, and so on. Use it!
Feedback makes things happen.

http://procps.sf.net/
http://procps.sf.net/procps-3.1.6.tar.gz

------------- recent changes -------------

procps-3.1.5 --> procps-3.1.6

handle the 2.5.61 kernel
top: memory leak fixed
ps: new --ppid option selects by PPID
watch: new --no-title option              #179862
handle SPARC Linux badness
rare crash fixed
compile with gcc 2.91.xx again
more informative "ps --info"
README update
ps: compare more with "ps -C verylongname"     #178127

procps-3.1.4 --> procps-3.1.5

ancient (2.x.xx era) data corruption fixed
serious hidden-process problem (3.1.3+) fixed
w: escape sequence vulnerability fixed

procps-3.1.3 --> procps-3.1.4

top: was trashing every "3" in a command name
top: when killing a process, the PID was cut at a "3"
top: more reliable %CPU
update copyright dates (GPL & LGPL require this)
RPM generation works now