prstat utility enhancements to look and act more like top [PSARC/2008/533 FastTrack timeout 08/26/2008]

[James Carlson]

Shawn Walker writes:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> > As for me, I'd agree with phase 2, if phase 2 provides near-enough 
> > approximation of functionality that users are unlikely to notice the 
> > difference.  But phase 1 seems more and more like a terrible idea.
> 
> Phase 1 solves the problem of "I type top and nothing happens."
> 
> In my view, having something is better than nothing if that something 
> doesn't look like "top" yet.  As the case materials pointed out, top 
> varies from distribution to distribution.

Simply integrating the existing 'top' utility would also fix that
problem, and would do it without creating a bait-n-switch problem.

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