Valerie Anne Bubb wrote:
> sudo you might get some pushback, as Sun already has rbac
> (and has been shipping it since, I believe, S7 or S8)

Perhaps sudo would be covered by any "more friendly for Linux users" effort?

> instead of top we now have "prstat", which seems to serve
> the same purpose (though it's been years since I used top,
> so maybe it has some newer bells & whistles that make it
> cooler)

This also would be an even stronger example for approachability from 
other OS's.  Not that most people may want any feature unique to top, 
just that a lot of people know the command "top" but have never heard of 
"prstat".

There was a long discussion 1-2 weeks ago on approach-discuss (which 
might be a better mailing list for this request) about adding top.  The 
main complaints were that top gets it's information in an 
architecturally impure way that the ARC might not like [*], but there 
were several suggestions in the end including:

- include top anyway

- Include a script which translates arguments and then:  exec prstat "$@"

- Include a shorter script that just prints "The equivalent Solaris 
command is prstat" and then exits.


For the full thread, see 
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=29673&tstart=0

Personally, I don't care what (if any) option is chosen.  The only 
reason I ever use top nowadays is because there's no "prstat" on MacOS 
or Linux.  But then, like several others, I only found about prstat in 
the first place via someone's reply to a question that asked "where is 
top on Solaris?".


Hugh.

[*] see also the excellent lsof.

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