(I hope I have moved this thread to the appropriate groups: "gnu-sol-discuss" "approach-discuss"). (I am just ccing tools-discuss, to let people know where I am moving the discussion)
Almost all other FOSS operating systems use top to display a dynamic list of processes. Solaris includes prstat, which A) is an unfamiliar name to non Solaris folk, and B) doesn't support all the in application commands. -Brian P.S. - My apologies for posting to the wrong board. On 4/30/07, Keith M Wesolowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 08:19:12PM -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > How do you propose to make top more accessable to non Solaris users? (prstat > is Solaris only) Actually, prstat is part of OpenSolaris, so it's not "Solaris only" though I suppose you really mean it's "OpenSolaris-only." It might be interesting to consider a small compatibility wrapper that translates top options to prstat options, or perhaps a top-compatibility mode in prstat itself. The Approachability Community Group might have more ideas - that's why the new project instantiation process directs project teams to the Community Groups. Just adding top to OpenSolaris is most definitely the wrong answer here; it has the exact same function as prstat, but consumes 2-3x the resources to perform it. There's nothing wrong with having something that's OpenSolaris-only; this community's objective is not to clone someone's favourite GNU/Linux distribution with the OpenSolaris kernel underneath, but to create the world's best operating system. Sometimes compatibility with other systems is easy, and we should do it; sometimes it's not worth it. You need to go figure out which bucket this belongs in. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" FishWorks "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!"
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