On Thursday 25 November 2021, Anton Aylward wrote:
What you are doing is confusing 'binaries',' jobs' and 'processes'. Many of the revolutionary techniques that UNIX introduced to differentiate them back then to contrast with the way mainframes worked we take for granted these days.
I don't think I'm confusing any of these. I was relating that, in my experience with UNIX, there were long run process that were worth keeping track of. Some jobs did break down into lots of process, but some jobs also ran single processes for minutes, hours or days. I'm aware of shared libraries and binaries. They were a biog part of my bread and butter. But I'm not sure what that has to do with the discussion, except that they alter what I need to pay attention to. Perhaps you mean is that PROCNO is confusing 'binaries',' jobs' and 'processes' - in that they are not separately discernible in the view or taken into account by it in any way. I accept that to be true. As with a lot of email, perhaps we are writing at cross purposes, and not correctly perceiving each others line of thought. I'm not sure I'm adding much value to users@lists.opensuse.org with these responses, so I will just agree that differ in understanding and leave it at that. Cheers, Michael