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Re: vmstat
- From: "Chris January" <chris at atomice dot net>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 23:21:42 +0100
- Subject: Re: vmstat
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> > Ok. Do you have any thoughts on where I should put ps.exe and kill.exe?
>
>
> I ended up renaming 'clear.exe' from the ncurses dist to 'clearn.exe' to
> avoid conflicts with the 'clear' package. (In ncurses, 'clear.exe' is
> not a 'test' program, so it didn't go into bin/ncurses-test-*/; it went
> into ${prefix}/bin -- hence the conflict which required rename)
>
>
> > They need to be somewhere other than /bin, but available should the user
> > wish to use them. Perhaps I could rename them instead? procps.exe and
> > prockill.exe, although those names are a little unweidly.
> > If anyone has any ideas, then please make a suggestion.
>
>
> pps.exe and pkill.exe ? Actually, proc*.exe isn't bad -- and the user
> can always alias whatever he wants.
Will this package actually appear on the mirrors in future or are there
issues I am not aware of preventing this from happening?
Chris