I wanted to share some ideas of what is currently being worked on as some of you may want to know early so they can be prepared.
(1) We have some open naming issues: The name `stools' turns out to be problematic and the name `stop' is already used by other Unix tools. So I went ahead an merged the `stop' functionality into `scli'. This actually works pretty well. So I plan to change the package setup so that it only provides a single binary - called scli. stop will go away. (I will also take the opportunity to change some internal directory names.) I will then call the whole package scli, which solves the other naming problem.
(2) I am working on generating XML output in addition to the human readable output we have now. This allows to post-process scli output with any XML-enabled language. The XML output generated is rather bulky - but that does not really matter much I guess.
<process index="254"> <status>running</status> <type>application</type> <memory unit="KByte">0</memory> <cpu unit="secs">4031</cpu> <path>/usr/local/sbin/xntpd</path> </process>
(3) I have written a draft paper for LISA 2001 about this package. Some stuff in the paper is already outdated by the recent changes mentioned above. For those interested, you can pick up the draft from http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/~schoenw/lisa-2001.pdf. Do not hesitate to share any comments you might have on the draft.
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