Following up with some discusson from a few months back,
where it was proposed that ProcessTable is a better name.
This data structure is definitely not a list ... if it
was one-dimensional it'd be a set, but in practice it has
much more in common with a two-dimensional table.
The Process table is a familiar operating system concept
for many people too so it resonates a little in that way
as well.
This commit refactors the Process and ProcessList structures such
they each have a new parent - Row and Table, respectively. These
new classes handle screen updates relating to anything that could
be represented in tabular format, e.g. cgroups, filesystems, etc,
without us having to reimplement the display logic repeatedly for
each new entity.
First stage in sanitizing the process list structure so that htop
can support other types of lists too (cgroups, filesystems, ...),
in the not-too-distant future.
This introduces struct Machine for system-wide information while
keeping process-list information in ProcessList (now much less).
Next step is to propogate this separation into each platform, to
match these core changes.
This removes the duplication of dynamic meter/column hashtable
pointers that has come in between the Settings and ProcessList
structures - only one copy of these is needed. With the future
planned dynamic screens feature adding another pointer, let us
first clean this up before any further duplication happens.
Querying kernel threads with `ps -o pid,lid,flags,state,lname -sp 0`
gives that kernel threads have state `K` and flags have mask `0x20000` set.
This corresponds to `LW_SYSTEM` in kernel which is mapped as `L_SYSTEM`/`P_SYSTEM` for userspace.
Daniel Lange
Nathan Scott
Benny Baumann
Hisham Muhammad
marcluque
Christian Göttsche
fraggerfox
nia