>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.
I can only say: +1 (Although, unfortunately, they've "fixed" top so it no longer prints the %CPU as "ps" does) Casper
