Peter Tribble wrote:
> 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.
>
Why? What features do customers expect from top that prstat doesn't
supply?
-- Garrett
