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| author | Binh Nguyen <binhnguyen@fastmail.fm> | 2010-10-17 15:43:03 -0500 |
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| committer | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> | 2010-10-17 15:43:03 -0500 |
| commit | 2bcd9a735ad22855b21416bfbe8b631b5ea6b1bb (patch) | |
| tree | d478c376005ae97d86ce00fba38dd0ddd3cdb265 /libraries/perl-proc-processtable/README | |
| parent | a45438c7a3fa74387fbd8b9e21e46aded595930d (diff) | |
| download | slackbuilds-2bcd9a735ad22855b21416bfbe8b631b5ea6b1bb.tar.gz | |
libraries/perl-proc/processtable: Added (Proc::ProcessTable pm)
Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/libraries/perl-proc-processtable/README b/libraries/perl-proc-processtable/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..521da167db --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/perl-proc-processtable/README @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +This module is a first crack at providing a consistent interface to +Unix (and maybe other multitasking OS's) process table information. +The impetus for this came about with my frustration at having to parse +the output of various systems' ps commands to check whether specific +processes were running on different boxes at a larged mixed Unix site. +The output format of ps was different on each OS, and sometimes +changed with each new release of an OS. Also, running a ps subprocess +from within a perl or shell script and parsing the output was not a +very efficient or aesthetic way to do things. |