Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/3] Process events biarch bug: New process events connector value

Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-06-30T08:46:49Z

Albert Cahalan wrote:
>I haven't yet seen a good explanation of what this is or does,
>but I suspect it may be useful for the "top" program or for a
>debugger. In either case, I am a highly interested party.
>I maintain top as part of the procps package. People pay me to
>hack on debuggers.

>Mind pointing me to some documentation and an explanation of why
>the feature was added? Is there a man page? (there should be)

There are a lot of goodies for process accounting there.
One can find initial draft with detailed description of the project
goals at http://lwn.net/Articles/153694/

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Evgeniy Polyakov