[PATCH v2 3/3] vstatus: Display an informational message when the VSTATUS character is pressed or TIOCSTAT ioctl is called.

[Jiri Slaby]

On 06. 02. 22, 16:48, Walt Drummond wrote:
> When triggered by pressing the VSTATUS key or calling the TIOCSTAT
> ioctl, the n_tty line discipline will display a message on the user's
> tty that provides basic information about the system and an
> 'interesting' process in the current foreground process group, eg:
> 
>    load: 0.58  cmd: sleep 744474 [sleeping] 0.36r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 772k
> 
> The status message provides:
>   - System load average
>   - Command name and process id (from the perspective of the session)
>   - Scheduler state
>   - Total wall-clock run time
>   - User space run time
>   - System space run time
>   - Percentage of on-cpu time
>   - Resident set size
> 
> The message is only displayed when the tty has the VSTATUS character
> set, the local flags ICANON and IEXTEN are enabled and NOKERNINFO is
> disabled; it is always displayed when TIOCSTAT is called regardless of
> tty settings.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Walt Drummond <walt at drummond.us>
> ---

It looks like my comments were addressed. However you did not document 
the chances since v1 here. IOW, [v2] tag missing here.

And please add the CCs I added last time, so that relevant people still 
can comment.

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs