From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 11 5:15:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id B956937B40F; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 05:15:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 05:15:17 -0700 From: Juli Mallett To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Looking for comments on a new utility... Message-ID: <20020611051517.A87966@FreeBSD.ORG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , X-Affiliated-Projects: FreeBSD, xMach, ircd-hybrid-7 X-Towel: Yes Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Juli Mallett FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Perception is prejudice / Don't classify me / Accept me as me / Not what you see To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message