Requests for Help: add FreeBSD procstat support to akuma library for Jenkins

[George Neville-Neil]

On 18 Jun 2015, at 11:05, Craig Rodrigues wrote:

> Hi,
>
> When setting up Jenkins, if you install new plugins, there
> is a checkbox:
>
> Restart Jenkins when installation is complete and no jobs are running
>
> This checkbox allows you to restart Jenkins automatically when new
> plugins are installed.  This feature works on OS X, Linux, and 
> Solaris,
> but not FreeBSD.
>
> I tracked down the problem on FreeBSD.  It turns out in this file
> in the Jenkins core Jenkins:
> https://github.com/kohsuke/hudson/blob/master/core/src/main/java/hudson/lifecycle/UnixLifecycle.java
>
> the akuma library ( https://github.com/kohsuke/akuma/ ) is used
> to figure out what command-line arguments
> were passed to the Java VM that is running Jenkins.
> This allows Jenkins to restart the VM with the same command-line
> arguments.
>
> The akuma library has platform specific code for
> OS X, Linux, and Solaris, but not FreeBSD.
>
> I am a bit overstretched with multiple things at this point.
> I was wondering if someone with Java coding experience can help
> with the following.
>
> (1)  Take the akuma library from https://github.com/kohsuke/akuma/
>
> (2)  Implement FreeBSD support in akuma, by having it execute
>    "procstat -c" to figure out the command-line arguments for a 
> process.
>
> (3)  Make sure that all tests in akuma pass
>
> (4)  Send a GitHub pull request to incorporate the change upstream.
>
>
I do not code in Java but also didnt' see a followup to this.  Has 
anyone
taken it upon themselves to fix this problem?  If so, please speak up.

Best,
George