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.