From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 28 19:20:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA24503 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 28 May 1998 19:20:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan@dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA24377 for ; Thu, 28 May 1998 19:20:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA11598 for current@FreeBSD.org; Thu, 28 May 1998 21:20:02 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Message-ID: <19980528212002.A11468@emsphone.com> Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 21:20:02 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: top -osize References: <19980528211849.A10559@rtfm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.92.4i In-Reply-To: <19980528211849.A10559@rtfm.net>; from "Nathan Dorfman" on Thu May 28 21:18:49 GMT 1998 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (May 28), Nathan Dorfman said: > It's been confirmed, it's not just me: > > nathan: -osize doesn't work here. > > Anyway, top -osize is supposed to sort by size instead of cpu usage. > Instead it prints a "this platform doesn't support arbitrary > ordering, sorry" message and ignores the option. > > Is there a real reason for it not being able to do this or is > something just mildly broken? The only reason is that no one's wanted to write the sort routines. Out of the 40 platforms supported by top 3.5b7, only 5 (aix32, aix41, sunos4, sunos5, and untrix4) even implemented -o. If I need a process list sorted by something, I usually pipe ps through sort myself. And you're in the wrong channel :) -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message