ktm-0.4
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Kool Task Manipulator =D
This proggy allows to change priority, signal, freeze & activate
any task or process without a hassle with guis. It accepts exact
or case insensitive and patternal name, just to be as handy as
possible. Further more, you can do all those things massively to a
group of tasks or go nuts and do that with every task.
I tried to make the output look like in 'Scout'.
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NEWS:
[09-Mar-2009] 0.4 Smaller, better, faster.
[31-Jul-2008] 0.3 Program can be made resident now.
[31-May-2008] 0.2 Added searching by address($xxxxxxxx)
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NOTES:
Requires 68000+, OS 2.04+, 8192+ bytes of free memory
Returns 0 if nothing was done and 5 upon successful operation.
When used in scripts avoid "task,task,..." syntax because there is no
way to distinguish between successful and unsuccessful. Only one call
per task can tell what happened.
Quite fast(also because it does not perform sorting).
This proggy can also display ports.
Basic 'status' command emulation is possible.
Basic 'break' command emulation is possible.
When made resident works even faster.
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USAGE:
*** template: ktm <com=task/a>[,...] [arg] [ic/s] [all=mass/s] [status/s]
<com=task/a> - name of a task or process, you can specify exact
"taskname" or exact "[procname]" or partial name
together with [ic/s] or "#?" for all, or task
address($XXXXXXXX, 0xX[XXXXXXX]) or CLI number.
[arg] - decides what to do, you can, set priority with
numbers in range of -127 to 127, send a signal
with $XXXXXXXX or 0xX[XXXXXXX], send C,D,E,F
signals, or S - self signal, you can FREEZE and
ACTIVATE, or dump(P) ports.
-127<>127 - priority
$XXXXXXXX - signal
0xX[XXXXXXX] - signal
c/d/e/f - standard signals
s - self signal
freeze - freezes task(s)
activate - activates task(s)
p - search in ports
[ic/s] - ignores case and does patternal search.
[all=mass/s] - means all.
[status/s] - 'status' emulation.
*** indicators:
d - dump
p - priority
s - signal
f - freeze
a - activate
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EXAMPLES:
; you want to see the list
ktm #?
; you want only CLIs to be listed
ktm "Background CLI,Shell Process" all
; you want everything but the clis
ktm -1 all
; you want all clis first and then the rest
ktm "Background CLI,Shell Process,-1" all
; you want process 3 to be shown
ktm 3
; suppose there is plenty "wait" commands running and you want
; them not to be handled too often, but you dont know the case
; of each process.
ktm [wait] -1 ic all
p $01E71578 process -120 49 wait dos $00000100 3.770 Background CLI [WAIt]
p $01EA8678 process -120 50 wait dos $00000100 3.770 Background CLI [WAit]
p $01EAD578 process -120 51 wait dos $00000100 3.770 Background CLI [Wait]
p $01EA28D8 process -120 48 wait dos $00000100 3.770 Background CLI [WAIT]
p $01E866B8 process -120 45 wait dos $00000100 3.770 Background CLI [waiT]
p $012B2180 process -120 3 wait dos $00000100 4.794 Background CLI [wait]
p $0138F9A0 process -120 6 wait dos $00000100 4.794 Background CLI [wait]
p $01E87430 process -120 46 wait dos $00000100 3.770 Background CLI [waIT]
p $01EA0B58 process -120 47 wait dos $00000100 3.770 Background CLI [wAIT]
; suppose you have slow cpu and you use "scsi.device" or "IDEFIX" where
; these tasks have rather high priority and when something is accessing
; the drive everything else stops for a while.
ktm IDEFIX,scsi.device 0
; freeze the 'sMeLLy' who is doing messy things in the OS afap
ktm smelly ic freeze
; break bunch of different tasks not knowing their exact case
; but knowing that they work as shell processes - this way other
; tasks with matching patterns wont be terminated.
ktm [aws],[inetd],[named] c ic
; signal some task with custom signal
ktm TASK 0xFFA0FF
; set new priority of two different groups of processes
ktm arexx,[rx] -1 ic all
; find a task by its address
ktm $01EAD578
; simulate 'status' behaviour - obtaining CLI number
ktm wait ic status
; simulate 'status' behaviour - obtaining process list
ktm "Background CLI,Shell Process" all status
; simulate 'break' behaviour
ktm 10 c
; obtain task address - you can use this technique to obtain anything
set taskaddress "`ktm wait ic`"
set taskaddress "`echo first 4 len 9 "$taskaddress"`"
echo "$taskaddress"
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