Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 05:15:17 -0700 From: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Looking for comments on a new utility... Message-ID: <20020611051517.A87966@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Hej,
As some of you may have noticed, I've done some poking of ps(1) lately, and
this has brought attention of people who have ideas for things that they
would like to see done to ps(1) :) The most notable request was for a
feature I've missed having in our ps(1) for a while, the ability to get a
tree of processes printed so you can tell who is whose child, etc.
ps(1)'s internals, however, didn't seem quite right to me, but after about
10 minutes reading kvm(3) manpages and recalling some tricks with recursive
programming to produce an N-level tree with as many as N-1 elements, I had
come up with a simple utility to print out a "process tree".
You can find the code here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~jmallett/.proctree/proctree.c
And some example output from a cluster machine here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~jmallett/.proctree/proctree.out
Lots of people have given feedback that they don't care much for the \_
formatting of the tree, and I'm willing to look at patches that provide
noticably more readable output.
I'd actually like to hear what information otherwise could better be
included along with associated login, pid, cpu, etc.
And I'd really like to hear thoughts about inclusion of this into the tree.
Does anyone hold the opinion that it absolutely cannot be included? Does
anyone have any suggestions to make the code better?
I'm asking you guys, the CURRENT userbase, since you are users who obviously
seem to take more of an interest in FreeBSD's future, etc. :)
Thanks,
juli.
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