[approach-discuss] Re: [tools-discuss] Pkg proposal: top

[Nicolas Williams]

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 10:28:32AM -0700, Richard Elling wrote:
> Brian Gupta wrote:
> >Does it have to remain hidden? /usr/bin/top would probably be an easier 
> >place to find it. A solution might be as simple as top being linked to a 
> >script that explains to users prstat useage.
> 
> Intercepting top just won't work.  You are correct that this is an
> approachability problem in that it should be in the default PATH, even
> if it is not in /usr/bin.

It should be in /usr/bin/.

Making top(1) tell you about prstat might be acceptable if that doesn't
intrude too much (i.e., find some unused whitespace in the top screen,
or steal a line of output and display a note there -- don't make the
user have to "click through" such a note).

How about re-implementing top to work the way prstat does (i.e., make it
more efficient) but keeping the top UI?

> I've not kept up with the SFW or related discussions, which is where
> this will most likely take place.

The conclusion of those discussions is to integrate/move all non-
conflicting commands into /usr/bin (with symlinks left behind where
commands are being moved).

Nico
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