Month: December 2011

  • When a dynamic library and program share functions

    This is about making procps have a proper library but it really is a generic sort of question.  Say you are making a library and a program that uses that library.  Now at times you may have convience type functions; procps has them for things like escaping command names or allocation different sorts of memory. …

  • procps-ng 3.3.1 released

    Procps-ng, the Debian, Fedora and OpenSuSE fork of procps had another release today.  This is a bugfix release that fixes some important bugs that have cropped up in 3.3.0 pgrep crashes, pgrep -u not finding processes and a problem with top forest view have all been fixed. An important addition to this release is that…