another-boids-in-rust/vendor/sysinfo/migration_guide.md

Migration guide

0.33 to 0.34

Major changes

The multithread feature is now disabled by default. It is to reduce the issues linked to the rayon crate usage.

The System::physical_core_count method was turned into an associated function. No need to have a System instance to get this information anymore.

The System::refresh_all and System::refresh_specifics methods now remove dead processes. If you don't want the dead processes to be removed, you will need to use System::refresh_processes_specifics directly instead.

New APIs

The Process type has new methods: accumulated_cpu_time, exists, open_files and open_files_limit.

The Process::wait method now returns Option<ExitStatus> instead of ExitStatus.

The System type has new methods: distribution_id_like and kernel_long_version.

The ProcessRefreshKind type has a new "refresh kind": tasks.

0.32 to 0.33

Major changes

Users::refresh_list, Groups::refresh_list, Components::refresh_list, Networks::refresh_list and Disks::refresh_list methods were renamed into refresh. All of them except for Users::refresh and Groups::refresh expect a boolean to tell whether or not sysinfo should keep removed items.

Component::temperature and Component::max now returns Option<f32> instead of returning f32::NaN in case the information isn't available.

*RefreshKind::new methods were renamed nothing to better the match the *RefreshKind::everything method.

New APIs

Disks now has a new refresh_specifics method expecting a DiskRefreshKind argument to allow you finer-grained refreshes.

The NetworkData type now has a new mtu method to retrieve the Maximum Transfer Unit.

0.31 to 0.32

Major changes

System::refresh_process and System::refresh_process_specifics methods now take an extra remove_dead_processes argument. When set to true, dead processes will be removed.

0.30 to 0.31

With this update, the minimum supported Rust version goes up to 1.74.

Major changes

System::refresh_process, System::refresh_process_specifics and System::refresh_pids methods were removed. The System::refresh_processes and System::refresh_processes_specifics methods take a new argument of type ProcessesToUpdate.

The equivalent of System::refresh_process, System::refresh_process_specifics and System::refresh_pids looks like this:

use sysinfo::{ProcessesToUpdate, System};

let pid = 1337;
let mut s = System::new();
s.refresh_processes(ProcessesToUpdate::Some(&[pid.into()]));

The equivalent of System::refresh_processes and System::refresh_processes_specifics looks like this:

use sysinfo::{ProcessesToUpdate, System};

let mut s = System::new();
s.refresh_processes(ProcessesToUpdate::All);

Global CPU usage

System::global_cpu_info was replaced with System::global_cpu_usage which returns an f32 representing the global CPU usage and no other information.

Features

You can now enable/disable parts of sysinfo API through its cargo features to have smaller build (size and time). If you're only interested by network information, then you'll import sysinfo like this:

sysinfo = { version = "0.31", default-features = false, features = ["network"] }

Renaming

The TermalSensorType type was renamed into ThermalSensorType.

0.29 to 0.30

With this update, the minimum supported Rust version goes up to 1.69.

Major changes

There are two major changes in this update. The first one was that all the traits were removed. It means that now, if you want to use methods on System, you don't need to import SystemExt anymore.

So before you had:

use sysinfo::{System, SystemExt};

// `SystemExt` is needed for both `new` and `refresh_processes`.
let mut s = System::new();
s.refresh_processes();

And now you have:

use sysinfo::System;

// No need for `SystemExt` anymore!
let s = System::new();
s.refresh_processes();

The second major change was that the System type has been split into smaller types:

• Components
• Disks
• Networks
• Users

The System type itself still handles CPU, memory and processes.

Finer control over what is refreshed

The *RefreshKind types now have many more options allowing you to control exactly what is retrieved. In particular, the ProcessRefreshKind now allows you to refresh specifically:

• cmd
• cpu
• disk_usage
• environ
• exe
• memory
• root
• user

In some cases, like user, you might want this information to be retrieved only if it hasn't been already. For them, a new UpdateKind enum was added. It contains three variants:

• Never
• Always
• OnlyIfNotSet

Like that, you get yet another extra level of control over what's updated and when.

Constants in System have been moved to crate level

System::IS_SUPPORTED is now sysinfo::IS_SUPPORTED_SYSTEM. System::SUPPORTED_SIGNALS is now sysinfo::SUPPORTED_SIGNALS. System::MINIMUM_CPU_UPDATE_INTERVAL is now sysinfo::MINIMUM_CPU_UPDATE_INTERVAL.

System changes

System::refresh_pids and System::refresh_pids_specifics methods have been added. They allow you to be able to refresh multiple PIDs while being able to have support for sysinfo multi-threading context (and much better performance in any case even if disabled).

Some methods are now static methods:

• boot_time
• cpu_arch
• distribution_id
• host_name
• kernel_version
• load_average
• long_os_version
• name
• os_version
• uptime

Meaning you can call them without having an instance of System:

println!("host name: {}", System::host_name());

A new System::refresh_memory_specifics method and a new MemoryRefreshKind type were added, allowing you to control whether you want both RAM and SWAP memories to be updated or only one of the two. This change was needed because getting SWAP information on Windows is very slow.

System::tasks method is now available on all OSes even if it only returns something on Linux. Its return type is now a Option<HashSet<Pid>> instead of HashMap<Pid, Process>. The tasks are listed in processes.

Disk changes

Disk::name and Disk::file_system now returns &OsStr.

cgroups handling

Before, sysinfo was handling cgroups internally and the users had no control over it. Now there is a System::cgroup_limits method which allows you to query this information if you need it.

Process changes

Process::cwd, Process::exe and Process::root now return an Option<&Path>.

Removal of sort_by methods

If you want to sort Disks, Users or Components, you can do it by calling sort (or equivalents) on the value returned by the list_mut methods.

New linux-netdevs feature

By default, sysinfo excludes network devices because they can make the retrieval hangs indefinitely. If you still want to get network devices knowing this risk, you can enable this feature.

Cpu changes

Information like Cpu::brand, Cpu::vendor_id or Cpu::frequency are not set on the "global" CPU.

CHANGELOG

If you want the full list of changes, take a look at the CHANGELOG.