On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Don Cragun <don.cragun at sun.com> wrote:
> 4. Technical Description: > 4.1. Details: > The top utility available on Linux systems is not provided on > Solaris systems. Since top is the Linux utility most requested > by users running OpenSolaris systems, we need to provide a top > utility in OpenSolaris 2008.11. In many cases, output from top > is very similar to output produced by the Solaris prstat > utility. We will not be able to provide all of the features of > the various Linux top utilities (features and options vary > between Linux systems) in time for 2008.11, so we plan to > provide top in two phases. This case describes phase 1. A > later case will provide phase 2. > > Phase 1 will make top be a link to prstat. It will simply > invoke prstat as is. An accompanying man page for top will > indicate what we have done and note that we are working on a > "top like" implementation. (See top.1m in the materials > directory.) > > The intent for Phase 2 will be to add features to prstat so > that when prstat is invoked with the name top it will look and > behave similar to the top that comes from: > http://www.unixtop.org/ No. What customers want, need, and expect, is top. The real thing. Please scrap this idea and just ship top. Not only will it actually meet customers needs but it is substantially less effort. The only acceptable "top-like" implementation is top itself. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
