Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:

> > On another front, I've recently uüstreamed a patch for a Perl distribution
> > to use /proc/pid/statm because ps from Cygwin doesn't implement a switch to
> > show the vmsize information.  The maintainer of said distribution said he
> > was expecting a BSD ps before anything else and didn't like the Linux /proc
> > interface a lot, but it seems we might want to move to a more modern ps
> > implementation (Linux ps uses /proc under the hood, AFAIK) when the
> > underlying functionality in Cygwin has that covered.
> 
> Use procps?

Jettison ps and move procps into Base?  It looks like it wouldn't pull in
any new dependencies beyond libncursesw.

Regards,
Achim.

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