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- -------------------------- general ------------------------
-
- The main Makefile is broken. Try 'touch top.h' to see.
- The Makefile is too clever, so it's still not fixed.
-
- Always catch signal 11 and other interesting ones, then print:
- Please send bug reports to <procps-bugs@redhat.com>
- (ps does this now)
-
- Don't these really belong in the procps package?
- killall pstree fuser lsof who
- (no, these are maintained elsewhere. The psmisc stuff used
- to be included, but as it was maintained quite separately
- procps was generally behind the latest psmisc release.)
-
- Cache results of dev_to_tty.
-
- ---------------------- kernel -------------------------
-
- Mark threads, and supply a list of other threads.
-
- Supply data for the ADDR and JOBC fields.
-
- Support & supply data for SL and RE.
-
- Add a /proc/*/tty symlink to eliminate guessing when /proc/*/fd is
- not accessable.
-
- Put unique ID at the top of System.map and in /proc, to make sure
- there is never a mismatch.
-
- The kernel should provide a "current CPU number" indication for SMP. Maybe
- use "last CPU number" if not currently running, since processor affinity
- will tend to put the process back on the same CPU it had before.
-
- The kernel should report these task_struct members:
- has_cpu
- processor
- last_processor Only used by PowerPC!?!? Bug?
-
- ---------------------- w --------------------------
-
- The LOGIN@ column sometimes has a space in it. This makes correct
- scripting difficult.
-
- Verify that DNS control does not give a user the power to specify
- arbitrary data for the FROM column. (could set root's VGA color map!)
-
- ---------------------- watch --------------------------
-
- Should catch SIGWINCH and adjust as needed.
- Tell 29970@bugs.debian.org when done.
-
- ---------------------- vmstat --------------------------
-
- Extract /proc/stat parsing from vmstat into libproc somewhere.
-
- --------------------- libproc ----------------------
-
- Remove pre-2.0 /proc/meminfo support from proc/sysinfo.c to simplify the code.
- (no, I want to support old versions for a long time when possible. -mkj)
- Parse the 2.0 format in a better manner, perhaps like ps does long options.
-
- Stop storing fields with duplicate info (often different
- units: kB and pages, seconds and jiffies) in the proc_t struct.
-
- ---------------------- top -------------------------
-
- Share more stuff with ps.
-
- -------------------- skill ------------------------
-
- Use the library more? The tty output is bad.
-
- ---------------- ps for now, maybe move to libproc ------------------
-
- With forest output and a tty named /dev/this_is_my_tty, the position
- of the command name gets messed up. (we print too many spaces)
-
- Fix missing stuff for these formats: FB_j FB_l FB_v HP_f HP_*_ HP_fl JFMT OL_m
- (jobc,cpu,sl,re,cpu,prmgrp,cp,m_size,m_swap,m_share,vm_lib,m_dt)
- Note that "cpu" has two meanings.
-
- Add Beowulf support. This is ugly, since the current patches use a
- daemon to collect info and add a HOST field after the PID field.
-
- Query optimizer, put cheap/required process selection first.
-
- Avoid reading both /proc/*/status and /proc/*/stat. Actually, avoid
- reading lots of stuff! Avoidance got disabled. (at least don't read the
- environment!!!)
-
- Maybe ps should put a 'C' in front of fields when they are affected
- by cumulative mode. Debian does that. (move flag to common.h...)
- (not sure I like that -mkj)
-
- Support printing the client hostname (the FROM that w(1) uses) in place
- of a pty. Maybe do this when PS_PERSONALITY=linux.
-
- Disgusting color support, for completeness.
- (No, leave that to things like gtop and so forth. -mkj)
-
- Disambiguate narrow tty info. (/dev/tty7 == /dev/pts/7 now)
- 1------8 1--4
- ttyS2 S2
- ttyI31 I31
- pts/7 7 Short form could be /999.
- pts/9999 9999 Short form could just be trunctuated to /999.
- tty7 7 Short form could be vc-7.
- tty63 63 Short form could be vc63.
-
- Internationalization, as specified by XPG3, Volume 1, Commands and Utilities.
- (and suggested by Unix98) LC_TIME affects date format.
-
- ----------------------- ps -----------------------
-
- Improve long sort/format specifiers documentation and fill in the missing
- code as much as the kernel can support. Make sure that memory amounts are in
- pages when they should be and in kB when they should be, not backwards.
-
- output encoding: UTF8 --nul --null --html
-
- Make BSD formats use non-standard BSD time format, at least when it
- doesn't violate the "no whitespace" rule.
-
- Adjust default selection for BSD-like personalities and for the
- automatic personalities when BSD options are used.
-
- Try to make -fl, -jl, and maybe even -flj fit in 80 columns.
- Do we need more than 1000 pty devices, 9 flag bits, etc.?
-
- When not in strict Unix98 mode, let foo=8 specify that foo is 8
- characters wide. Debian does that. Then foo=8=bar and foo=bar=8
- could change both header and width.
-
- Better unmangling of '?' as a tty. The shell destroys '?' when there
- is a filename that matches. If the argument seems like garbage,
- check for a file that might have screwed up the '?'.
-
- If the 'O' option is given something already implied by 'O',
- assume the user wanted a sorting option.
-
- Conflict:
- Digital THREAD is user,pcpu,pri,scnt,wchan,usertime,systime
- AIX THREAD is uname,pid,ppid,tid,S,C,PRI,scount,WCHAN,F,tty,bnd,comm
- AIX looks like this:
- USER PID PPID TID S C PRI SC WCHAN FLAG TTY BND CMD
-