Re: Anything else for procps 4.0.4?

On 6/21/23 5:25 AM, Craig Small (csmall) wrote:
> I'd like to get procps version 4.0.4 out soon. My plan is to do a 
> final sweep of the bugs and issues and see if there is anything easy to 
> incorporate, add in the logind patch for w and then release.
> 
> Is there anything else that should be in version 4.0.4?

Hi Craig,

That's good news on 4.0.4 and I've got nothing else to add.

> I know there are several ideas out there for some updates that will bump 
> the API. Get them ready because I'd like to roll them into the 
> next-after (probably called 4.0.5) version. Ideally, we grip these all 
> up together so there are fewer API jumps, even if there are many changes 
> in a single API bump.
> 
> So in short. minor/simple stuff plus logind for w goes into 4.0.4, API 
> impacting improvements into 4.0.5

Just for the record, I'm ready with the following for 4.0.5:

1. Add a SCHED_CLASSSTR item (like that in ps) to the <PIDS> api and 
exploit it in ps and top.

2. Separate 'disk sleep' from 'sleep' in the <STAT> and exploit it in top.

3. Add ZSWAP and ZSWAPPED items to the <MEMINFO> api (not yet exploited).

Regards,

Jim