1. Replaced readlines() with readline() to prevent loading the entire strings file to memory all at once.
2. Added process callback to indicate the progression.
3. Converted the re.compile of strings parse_line to global in order to prevent compilation for each line.
4. Changed the regex to not include the trailing newline (\n)
Sorts the results (as stated). Note that user interfaces may decide to
sort their results in an order of their choosing.
Also added a parameter that can be provided multiple times to only allow
plugins that match (any of) the parameters provided.
All conversions using `latin-1` have been converted to
`raw_unicode_escape` which is like `latin-1`, but handles unicode
characters appropriately (with a `\u` prefix).
Since this is like `latin-1` it should have no impact on things that ran
previously, but those that would fail with a unicode error now will
present an encoded unicode string. There may be situations where the
binary representation of unicode would be better (timeliner file
output?), but those can be changed when/if it's determined necessary.
Fixes#274.
This also updates all other plugins that rely on process listing
and theoretically allows them to choose their preferred method of
process listing. At the moment, the default (first in the method list)
is chosen. An optional pslist_method StringRequirement can be added to
each plugin, but using the list in the requirements could break if the
pslist plugin is too old (ie, using the list would happen before the
PluginRequirement gets checked).
If this is a feature we want, it should be easy to add to all but
netstat, which does not parameterize the list of processes.
changed behavior of plugin with it is run with a bad symbol table. Instead of a vollog.error, a TypeError exception is raised with information as to why it was raised.
Also removed unnecessary header info.
