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| author | Valentin Rothberg <rothberg@redhat.com> | 2020-11-23 10:35:52 +0100 |
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| committer | Valentin Rothberg <rothberg@redhat.com> | 2020-11-23 10:35:52 +0100 |
| commit | 5d9647a12094c953436b1f9af44f88e53db4af16 (patch) | |
| tree | 60b5d9005515d7ba96c75a299efe8f7ee6e28e52 /cmd | |
| parent | 5292d5a7b85f9d2ae0b2a3734f8ae4baeba80f11 (diff) | |
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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')
| -rw-r--r-- | cmd/podman/containers/top.go | 8 |
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{ |