man:sysconf(3) states:
The values obtained from these functions are system configuration constants.
They do not change during the lifetime of a process.
Reasoning:
- implementation was unsound -- broke down when I added a fairly
basic macro definition expanding to a struct initializer in a *.c
file.
- made it way too easy (e.g. via otherwise totally innocuous git
commands) to end up with timestamps such that it always ran
MakeHeader.py but never used its output, leading to overbuild noise
when running what should be a null 'make'.
- but mostly: it's just an awkward way of dealing with C code.
htop currently expects m_size and m_resident in pages (Process.c).
According to the proc_info.h header, the values returned by libproc
are in bytes:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-1456.1.26/bsd/sys/proc_info.h
Eventually we should change the htop crossplatform API to expect memory
in bytes, but this is the smaller change that should fix it.
Closes#385.
* size_t nmemb (number of elements) first, then size_t size
* do not assume char is size 1 but use sizeof()
* allocate for char, not pointer to char (found by Michael McConville,
fixes#261)
Christian Göttsche
Benny Baumann
Daniel Lange
Zev Weiss
Daniel Flanagan
Hisham
Christian Hesse
David Hunt