Re: [Tracker] Showing trackerd's status in ps and top output

[Jeff Schroeder <jeffschroed gmail com>]

Michael Biebl wrote:
> 2008/1/3, Jeff Schroeder <jeffschroed gmail com>:
> > On Jan 2, 2008 7:30 PM, Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com> wrote:
> > > 2008/1/3, Jeff Schroeder <jeffschroed gmail com>:
> > > > A few days ago while staring at ps and tracker was grinding my hard
> > > > drive, it occurred to me, "Wouldn't it be nice if trackerd showed its
> > > > status in ps / top?".
> > > [..]
> > >
> > > Are such hacks really necessary? I mean, you can easily query
> > > trackerd's status via tracker-status and also the D-Bus interface.
> > Well on systems that support it via prctl or setproctitle, I don't see how
> > it is a hack? It is *really* nice to look at top and see: trackerd (Indexing).
> > It isn't like I'm saying we should switch tracker to lucene and I'm even
> > offering to do the coding. If you are dead set against it please say so
> > again. I'd rather work on a project that accepts small contributions.
>
> Sorry, I didn't want to discourage you, on the contrary. Helping hands
> are always welcome!
> I was just wondering about the usefulness of this patch, now that we
> have something like tracker-applet.
> Let's wait what jamie has to say. In the end he decides if this patch
> will be accepted or not.
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
Alright, we'll wait until Jaime says something. tracker-applet is nice,
but not something I'll put on my panel when killall -SIGSTOP trackerd does
the same thing functionality wise :)

In the spirit of opensource, I had an itch and decided to scratch it. If
it would be useful to more people then great. Also, I could modify it to
only use setproctitle(3) or prctl(2) in places they are available.

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Jeff Schroeder