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Nathan Scott f0ed0fdafb Add a new DynamicMeter class for runtime Meter extension
This commit is based on exploratory work by Sohaib Mohamed.
The end goal is two-fold - to support addition of Meters we
build via configuration files for both the PCP platform and
for scripts ( https://github.com/htop-dev/htop/issues/526 )

Here, we focus on generic code and the PCP support.  A new
class DynamicMeter is introduced - it uses the special case
'param' field handling that previously was used only by the
CPUMeter, such that every runtime-configured Meter is given
a unique identifier.  Unlike with the CPUMeter this is used
internally only.  When reading/writing to htoprc instead of
CPU(N) - where N is an integer param (CPU number) - we use
the string name for each meter.  For example, if we have a
configuration for a DynamicMeter for some Redis metrics, we
might read and write "Dynamic(redis)".  This identifier is
subsequently matched (back) up to the configuration file so
we're able to re-create arbitrary user configurations.

The PCP platform configuration file format is fairly simple.
We expand configs from several directories, including the
users homedir alongside htoprc (below htop/meters/) and also
/etc/pcp/htop/meters.  The format will be described via a
new pcp-htop(5) man page, but its basically ini-style and
each Meter has one or more metric expressions associated, as
well as specifications for labels, color and so on via a dot
separated notation for individual metrics within the Meter.

A few initial sample configuration files are provided below
./pcp/meters that give the general idea.  The PCP "derived"
metric specification - see pmRegisterDerived(3) - is used
as the syntax for specifying metrics in PCP DynamicMeters.
2021-07-07 10:59:36 +10:00
Christian Göttsche 1f5f40c091 Print current settings on crash 2021-05-16 19:55:31 +02:00
Christian Göttsche 36880cd61c Add read-only option
Add command line option to disable all system and process changing
features.
2021-04-14 17:21:43 +02:00
Nathan Scott 367561175a Update timestamps for the special process scans at startup also
Resolves https://github.com/htop-dev/htop/issues/592
2021-04-09 10:43:33 +10:00
Nathan Scott 36389fb0da Abstract htop main function to allow for a platform binary
One review request relating to the PCP platform is to have
a clearly separate binary from the regular htop so that we
have no confusion as to what is being requested to run, to
aid debugging, and a bunch of other good reasons.

This commit renames htop.c to CommandLine.c and provides a
minimal htop main function for 'native' platforms to use.
The PCP version of this will setup libpcp.so and then call
the same CommandLine_run function as regular htop.

Related to https://github.com/htop-dev/htop/pull/536
2021-03-25 15:56:15 +11:00