procps 2.0.13 with NPTL enhancements

I am ecstatic beyond words to announce the release of procps version 2.0.13. This release contains a number of NPTL-related enhancements, courtesy of Alexander Larsson of Red Hat. Some of the enhancements are generic in nature, and thus also benefit non-NPTL applications.

I encourage everyone to give this a try, especially 2.5 users.

Tarball, RPM packages, and CVS information is available at:

	http://tech9.net/rml/procps/
	http://sources.redhat.com/procps/

Change Log:

- fix top(1) -p flag behavior (Lars Holmberg)
- do not qsort the process list if we are not sorting (Alexander Larsson)
- read tgid from /proc/pid/status if it exists (Alexander Larsson)
- PROC_SKIPTHREADS flag for ps_readproc() to force only reading of (tgid != pid) to avoid lots of syscalls (Alexander Larsson)
- Look at PM->flags in ps_readproc() to avoid reading /proc files files that are not needed. (Alexander Larsson)
- Support FILLMEM, FILLCMD, FILLENV, FILLWCHAN for above. (Alexander Larsson)
- Fix wchan decoding bug (Alexander Larsson)
- Fix for ticks going backward and cleanup (Denis Vlasenko)

And other misc. cleanups and changes.

Enjoy,

Robert "Why the Hell am I maintaining this" Love

Any comment on the procps v3.1.8 located here:

http://procps.sourceforge.net/

Seems it is actively maintained...

-Phil

It is a fork of the original procps tree.

The maintainer of that tree will tell you his is better. I do not want to argue it.

Robert Love

In article <1054138948.783.179.camel@localhost>,

Well, you could also argue that the current 2.0 tree is a retroactive fork of an older version of procps.

I don't understand why you don't work together.

Mike.

.. somehow I have a feeling the hurting hasn't even begun yet
	-- Bill, "The Terrible Thunderlizards"