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| author | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> | 2011-03-16 01:18:10 -0500 |
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| committer | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> | 2011-03-20 12:32:34 -0500 |
| commit | 93ba4df5022a8c4d422dd97a2a13ffa8a8946453 (patch) | |
| tree | ea69c40d48150458e051a851cdf77e722c9118e2 /perl/perl-proc-processtable/README | |
| parent | 6a511b1c665a1f7efecadaa3447af889b1dcba58 (diff) | |
| download | slackbuilds-93ba4df5022a8c4d422dd97a2a13ffa8a8946453.tar.gz | |
perl/*: Moved all of the Perl modules to here
Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
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diff --git a/perl/perl-proc-processtable/README b/perl/perl-proc-processtable/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..521da167db --- /dev/null +++ b/perl/perl-proc-processtable/README @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +This module is a first crack at providing a consistent interface to +Unix (and maybe other multitasking OS's) process table information. +The impetus for this came about with my frustration at having to parse +the output of various systems' ps commands to check whether specific +processes were running on different boxes at a larged mixed Unix site. +The output format of ps was different on each OS, and sometimes +changed with each new release of an OS. Also, running a ps subprocess +from within a perl or shell script and parsing the output was not a +very efficient or aesthetic way to do things. |