libprocps8 and missing free, prockill, pkill, pgrep, pmap, procps, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, and watch

[Csaba Raduly]

Hi Ken,

On Mon, 20 Dec 2021 at 18:02, Ken Lobb  wrote:
>
> I'm probably missing something that needs to be configured, but I'm trying
> to utilize uptime & vmstat and other performance/load utilities in Cygwin.
> I installed the libprocps8 package, but none of these utilities can be
> found.

libprocps8 (https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Flibprocps8%2Flibprocps8-3.3.17-1&grep=libprocps8)
contains only a DLL (as its name suggests).

As Ken Brown wrote, you need
https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Fprocps-ng%2Fprocps-ng-3.3.17-1&grep=procps-ng

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by not doing the right thing. - Scott Meyers, An Effective C++11/14 Sampler
So if you're looking for a completely portable, 100% standards-conformant way
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