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authorMiles Bader <miles@gnu.org>1996-05-13 01:39:33 +0000
committerMiles Bader <miles@gnu.org>1996-05-13 01:39:33 +0000
commit9bfd4d3669d582ccdc2cab17baf3f625dc7580e7 (patch)
tree0061bce208b808391a973600420d99ec0c8241bd
parentbcfeac5fdf0c2f42b681dd5b93536d7a678596d3 (diff)
(PSTAT_THREAD_WAITS): New macro.
-rw-r--r--libps/ps.h12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/libps/ps.h b/libps/ps.h
index 6eba3ac7..9f4c9b18 100644
--- a/libps/ps.h
+++ b/libps/ps.h
@@ -300,10 +300,18 @@ struct proc_stat
#define PSTAT_TASK_BASIC 0x00040 /* The task's struct task_basic_info. */
#define PSTAT_TASK_EVENTS 0x01000 /* A task_events_info_t for the proc. */
#define PSTAT_NUM_THREADS 0x00080 /* The number of threads in the task. */
+/* Note that for a process-procstat, the thread information fields generally
+ are a summary of the process's threads, and imply that the corresponding
+ information has been fetched for all its threads. The exception is
+ thread-wait information (PSTAT_THREAD_WAIT), which is expensive to fetch
+ for processes with lots of threads, and not terrible useful. In this
+ case, the thread waits vector containing per-thread information is only
+ guaranteed to be valid if PSTAT_THREAD_WAITS is true as well. */
#define PSTAT_THREAD_BASIC 0x00100 /* A struct thread_basic_info. */
#define PSTAT_THREAD_SCHED 0x00200 /* A struct thread_sched_info. */
-#define PSTAT_THREAD_WAIT 0x00400 /* The rpc the thread is waiting on. */
-#define PSTAT_ARGS 0x00800 /* The process's args */
+#define PSTAT_THREAD_WAIT 0x00400 /* The rpc the thread is waiting on. */
+#define PSTAT_THREAD_WAITS 0x00800 /* Thread waits for this PS's threads */
+#define PSTAT_ARGS 0x01000 /* The process's args */
#define PSTAT_STATE 0x02000 /* A bitmask describing the process's
state (see below) */
#define PSTAT_SUSPEND_COUNT 0x04000 /* Task/thread suspend count */