Re: Top utility

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

Bill,

FYI, <http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=bin%2Ftop.exe>
shows that "top" is part of the "procps" package (and the one Ajay
referred to as "the procps top").

On Sat, 17 May 2003, Bill C. Riemers wrote:

> I'm not sue which package it is distributed in, but when I type "top" under
> cygwin, it works as expected.  Only, like all "ps" type commands for cygwin,
> only cygwin processes are shown.
>                                                   Bill
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
> To: "Ajay Nerurkar" <ajaynerurkar@yahoo.com>
> Cc: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 10:06 PM
> Subject: Re: Top utility
>
> > On Fri, 16 May 2003, Ajay Nerurkar wrote:
> >
> > > I am interested in porting the code at http://www.groupsys.com/top/
> > > to Cygwin. (I know of the existence of the procps top.)
> > >
> > > Searching the archives I found that Igor's already done this
> > > (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-07/msg01974.html). Igor, do you
> > > know if your port's been tested by anyone since then? I plan to use
> > > it as a starting point. Thanks.
> > >
> > > Ajay
> >
> > Ajay,
> >
> > Mine was more of a quick hack to make it compile than a port.  See
> > <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-07/msg02173.html>.  If you look through
> > the replies to the message you referenced above, you'll see all the people
> > who tested the code, AFAIK.  Also, Chris January (the implementor of the
> > /proc filesystem for Cygwin) said that he posted a patch to make this top
> > work correctly -- you might want to investigate that.
> > 	Igor

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