On Jun 2, 7:36pm, li...@eitanadler.com (Eitan Adler) wrote: -- Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/external/bsd/top/dist
| I don't mind reverting this: it came out of a discussion on IRC. That | said, perhaps "cd /tmp" would resolve both issues? This is a 3rd party program that behaves everywhere the same way; changing it for NetBSD will just produce unexpected results for the user: How will I even know to cd to /tmp to look for the core? As I said, if you want it to run from a different directory, wrap it in a shell script or use an alias. These user-specific customizations don't belong in a general purpose program. It is a slippery slope to start making programs behave in random ways just because it is convenient for some uses. For example, I've never needed top to chdir before it grew a 'machine' subdirectory to fix the mess of ifdefs it required to run on multiple OS's. Are you planning to change vmstat to do the same? iostat? systat? Why not? These changes don't make sense (to me). christos
