SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
from the micro$oft-please-stop-breaking-my-world-view dept.
Michael Larabel writes in Phoronix about Microsoft's new open-source process monitor for Linux:
Microsoft's newest open-source Linux software is ProcMon for Linux, a rewritten and re-imagined version of its Processor Monitor found on Windows within their Sysinternals suite.
Microsoft's ProcMon tool is a C++-written, open-source process monitor for Linux that makes it convenient to trace system call activity. This ProcMon Linux version is open-source under an MIT license.
Microsoft released the source code to their ProcMon Linux version on Thursday and is marked as a 1.0 preview release. Microsoft is also making available a Debian/Ubuntu package of this preview build.
The Phoronix article includes a gif demonstrating ProcMon. To my amateur eyes, this looks like htop without the resource monitoring and instead has some stack tracing capabilities. Has anybody given Microsoft's ProcMon a test drive? What are your thoughts?
(Score: 4, Informative) by RamiK on Sunday July 19 2020, @12:54PM
Most admins prefer htop since top and strace have a undiscoverable interface that has you reading through the man pages and googling for answers where with htop you browse the menus.
That out of the way, what you should be asking is whats wrong with htop. And the answer is that it's GPLed and it's made by a Portuguese speaking Brazilian Muslim developer.
If you're wondering what that has to do with anything, consider Microsoft is a USG government contractor that provides cloud service that may include built-in user-land and kernel backdoors that the USG doesn't want the admins and users to know about. So, by having their own MIT licensed htop clone, they can denylist* the relevant backdoor processes.
*blacklist for those not yet up-to-date on Newspeak 2.0.
compiling...