NEWS in package ‘ps’

Changes in version 1.7.0

ps now compiles on platforms that enable OpenMP (#109).
New functions ps_get_cpu_affinity() and ps_set_cpu_affinity() to query and set CPU affinity (#123).
ps_memory_info() now does not mix up rss and vms on Linux.
ps_memory_info() now reports memory in bytes instead of pages on Linux (#115)

New function ps_shared_libs() to list the loaded shared libraries of a process, on Windows.
New function ps_shared_lib_users() to list all processes that loaded a certain shared library, on Windows.
New function ps_descent() to query the ancestry of a process.

ps is now under the MIT license.
Process functions now default to the calling R process. So e.g. you can write simply ps_connections() to list all network connections of the current process, instead of ps_connections(ps_handle()).
New ps_get_nice() and ps_set_nice() functions to get and set the priority of a process (#89).
New ps_system_memory() and ps_system_swap() functions, to return information about system memory and swap usage.
New ps_disk_partitions() and ps_disk_usage() functions, they return information about file systems, similarly to the mount and df Unix commands.
New ps_tty_size() function to query the size of the terminal.
Fixed an issue in CLeanupReporter() that triggered random failures on macOS.

ps_cpu_count() now reports the correct number on Windows, even if the package binary was built on a Windows version with a different API (#77).

New function errno() returns a table of errno.h error codes and their description.
ps now compiles again on Solaris.

Fixed an installation problem on some Windows versions, where the output of cmd /c ver looks different (#69).

New ps_cpu_count() function returns the number of logical or physical processors.

New ps_connections() to list network connections. The CleanupReporter() testthat reporter can check for leftover open network connections in test cases.
ps_open_files() does not include open sockets now on Linux, they are rather included in ps_connections().
CleanupReporter() now ignores /dev/urandom, some packages (curl, openssl, etc.) keep this file open.
Fix ps() printing without the tibble package (#43).
Fix compilation with ICC (#39).
Fix a crash on Linux (#47).

New ps_num_fds() returns the number of open files/handles.
New ps_open_files() lists all open files of a process.
New ps_interrupt() interrupts a process. It sends a SIGINT signal on POSIX systems, and it can send CTRL+C or CTRL+BREAK events on Windows.
New ps_users() lists users connected to the system.
New ps_mark_tree(), ps_find_tree(), ps_kill_tree(), with_process_cleanup(): functions to mark and clean up child processes.
New CleanupReporter, to be used with testthat: it checks for leftover child processes and open files in test_that() blocks.

First released version.