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authorValentin Rothberg <rothberg@redhat.com>2020-11-23 10:35:52 +0100
committerValentin Rothberg <rothberg@redhat.com>2020-11-23 10:35:52 +0100
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clarify ps(1) fallback of `podman top`
Podman top falls back to executing ps(1) inside the container in the presence of ps-specific flags. Clarify that a bit more to help users resolve issues when, for instance, ps(1) isn't installed in the container. Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg <rothberg@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'cmd/podman')
-rw-r--r--cmd/podman/containers/top.go8
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/cmd/podman/containers/top.go b/cmd/podman/containers/top.go
index 3eb6d2af2..f00b1dce1 100644
--- a/cmd/podman/containers/top.go
+++ b/cmd/podman/containers/top.go
@@ -18,12 +18,10 @@ import (
)
var (
- topDescription = `Similar to system "top" command.
-
- Specify format descriptors to alter the output.
-
- Running "podman top -l pid pcpu seccomp" will print the process ID, the CPU percentage and the seccomp mode of each process of the latest container.`
+ topDescription = `Display the running processes of a container.
+ The top command extends the ps(1) compatible AIX descriptors with container-specific ones as shown below. In the presence of ps(1) specific flags (e.g, -eo), Podman will execute ps(1) inside the container.
+`
topOptions = entities.TopOptions{}
topCommand = &cobra.Command{