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posted by chromas on Saturday July 18 2020, @11:50PM   Printer-friendly
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?


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by srobert on Sunday July 19 2020, @05:50PM

    by srobert (4803) on Sunday July 19 2020, @05:50PM (#1023783)

    Why would I want to use any MS software to monitor my Linux system? Plenty of tools already exists for that.

    Why do I hear an echo from an old Pink Floyd song?

    You have to be trusted by the people that you lie to.
    So that when they turn their backs on you,
    You'll get the chance to put the knife in.

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