8.30. Psmisc-23.4

The Psmisc package contains programs for displaying information about running processes.

Approximate build time: less than 0.1 SBU

Required disk space: 5.6 MB

8.30.1. Installation of Psmisc

Update helper scripts to allow compilation on loongarch:

tar xf ../config-20210826.tar.xz --strip-components=1

Prepare Psmisc for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/usr

Compile the package:

make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Install the package:

make install

Installed programs: fuser, killall, peekfd, prtstat, pslog, pstree, and pstree.x11 (link to pstree)

fuser	Reports the Process IDs (PIDs) of processes that use the given files or file systems
killall	Kills processes by name; it sends a signal to all processes running any of the given commands
peekfd	Peek at file descriptors of a running process, given its PID
prtstat	Prints information about a process
pslog	Reports current logs path of a process
pstree	Displays running processes as a tree
pstree.x11	Same as pstree, except that it waits for confirmation before exiting