[procps] procps-3.2.1
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From: <pro...@li...> - 2004-03-28 05:51:31
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This release adds the -M and Z options for display of security data and makes the STAT field more like that of modern BSD. Some build problems and slabinfo error handling have been fixed as well. Poll: Should the "O" option print command arguments or not? It was originally designed to match the Digital UNIX one, which doesn't print arguments for either "-O" or "O". FreeBSD prints the command arguments for "O", and does not distinguish "O" from "-O". For those of you still upgrading from procps 2.0.xx releases, you can expect: * ps fully supports thread display (H, -L, m, -m, and -T) * ps can display NSA SELinux security contexts * top can show CPU usage for IO-wait, IRQ, and softirq * can set $PS_FORMAT to choose your own default ps format * better width control ("ps -o pid,wchan:42,args") * width of ps PID column adjusts to your system * vmstat lets you choose units you like: 1000, 1024, 1000000... * 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 * 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-3.2.1.tar.gz ------------- recent changes ------------- procps-3.2.0 --> procps-3.2.1 build even w/ curses in an odd location -- thanks to Segher Boessenkool ps: STAT flags for fg process group and session leader ps: STAT flags for swapped out process dropped (was broken) ps: new -M and Z options for security data (SE Linux, etc.) slabtop: detect broken /proc/slabinfo -- thanks to Fabian Frederick slabtop: ensure that error messages show up on the screen -- FF again procps-3.1.15 --> procps-3.2.0 build on IA-64 again #227933 pmap: output like Solaris 9, not Solaris 7 ps: also handle SELinux on the 2.4.xx kernels top: during a ^Z, the terminal was messed up #228822 future-proof the tty handling (thanks to Zhou Wei) slabtop (Chris Rivera and Robert Love) #226778 pmap: detect the primary stack pmap: -d format free: report high and low memory procps-3.1.14 --> procps-3.1.15 hide kernel PID bug (Linux 2.4.13-pre1 to 2.4.MAX) #217278 #219730 #217525 #224470 ps: faster threaded display top: auto-margin problem #217559 ps: support NSA SELinux, all builds, Linux 2.6+ #193648 sysctl: tweak man page for ESR's broken parser procps-3.1.13 --> procps-3.1.14 top: displays on more genuine serial terminals handle 32-bit dev_t of Linux 2.6 ps: finally, m and -m satisfy the original design ps: distinct per-thread and whole-process pending signals procps-3.1.12 --> procps-3.1.13 ps: can display NPTL threads w/ kernel patch no seLinux for now (new kernel interface) procps-3.1.11 --> procps-3.1.12 ps: explicit width ("ps -o pid,wchan:42,args") ps: $PS_FORMAT works properly #201575 top: new Linux 2.6.0-test4 CPU stats shown top: multiple -p options work again top: fixed 4 GB wrap-around ps: has a set of tests to ensure correctness man page: /var/run/utmp, not /etc/utmp #206583 required flags moved out of CFLAGS #205429 RPM generation handles /lib64 WCHAN skips leading '.' vmstat: numerous new features |