Torrentcheck
This isn't actually a release-quality program on its own, but rather an example of they way things
are done on Unix. Each and every utility I use here obeys the good old rule: do one thing, and do it well
.
Operation
Torrentcheck is a program that scans all rtorrent processes running on the system and reports the download/upload settings of each of them. However, instead of checking the real bandwidth used by the user/process, it does some black magic and trickery: connects to the process with gdb and retrieves the data by calling the apropriate C++ language functions:
call _ZN7torrent11up_throttleEv()
call _ZN7torrent13down_throttleEv()The ugly notation is an unfortunate side effect of C++ name mangling - the original function names probably
looked something like torrent::up_throttle() and torrent::down_throttle(). Still, the script
worked very well at the time I used it.
Screenshots
Sample program use:
I added coloring support some time ago, but I can't find the sources. All that was left is a screenshot made on a real system with multiple users:
