Re: More details about the tmux 2.0 regression

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jun  9 06:58, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> 
> > > On another front, I've recently uÃstreamed a patch for a Perl distribution
> > > to use /proc/pid/statm because ps from Cygwin doesn't implement a switch to
> > > show the vmsize information.  The maintainer of said distribution said he
> > > was expecting a BSD ps before anything else and didn't like the Linux /proc
> > > interface a lot, but it seems we might want to move to a more modern ps
> > > implementation (Linux ps uses /proc under the hood, AFAIK) when the
> > > underlying functionality in Cygwin has that covered.
> > 
> > Use procps?
> 
> Jettison ps and move procps into Base?  It looks like it wouldn't pull in
> any new dependencies beyond libncursesw.

That requires to update procps and cygwin packages at the same time.
It also replaces a ps using internal functionality with a ps which
uses the /proc emulation layer, which *is* slower.

What about patching Cygwin's ps to add the required functionality?
SHTDI, of course...


Corinna

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