Re: vm_size_t is unsigned, so libps should use unsigned ints.

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 04:04:44PM -0400, James A Morrison wrote:
>   I had noticed that ps and pptop would show the virtual size of some of my
> processes to be some large negative number, which seems wrong, so here is the
> patch I use to get only positive number for the resident size and the virtual
> size.

This patch is partially wrong and not complete, please make a new patch which
fixes (at least :) the following points:

* Check what is up with all the other values using ps_emit_nice_int:
  Some of them surely are candidates to be uints as well, but check
  each one individually.

* Don't rename ps_emit_nice_int, but provide ps_emit_nice_uint as a new
  function used by all from above.  Seems we need a second sprint_frac_value
  function for uint's, too.  I say maybe because the analysis above might
  lead to a result where all types are either uint, or are int but without any
  valid negative numbers.  If the latter is the case, an assert() and a cast
  to uint will do.

* Your changelog doesn't match the patch.  If you rename a function, you
  should do:
  (foo_old): Renamed to ...
  (foo_new): ... this.  New function.
  Or something like that.  But see above, probably should not be renamed at all.

Thanks for spotting this,
Marcus

-- 
`Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org brinkmd@debian.org
Marcus Brinkmann              GNU    http://www.gnu.org    marcus@gnu.org
Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de