Disable VmRSS reporting on non-Linux platformstrunk

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 86418bb..20ca570 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 NEWS for cliapp
 ===============
 
+Version 1.UNRELEASED
+------------------
+
+* Portability patch to disable VmRSS reporting on non-Linux platforms.
+  The code assumed that /proc/self/status exists, but that's only true
+  on Linux. Patch from Itamar Turner-Trauring.
+
 Version 1.20130808
 ------------------
 
diff --git a/cliapp/app.py b/cliapp/app.py
index 8e280af..c397c39 100644
--- a/cliapp/app.py
+++ b/cliapp/app.py
@@ -609,6 +609,8 @@ class Application(object):
 
     def _vmrss(self): # pragma: no cover
         '''Return current resident memory use, in KiB.'''
+        if platform.system() != 'Linux':
+            return 0
         f = open('/proc/self/status')
         rss = 0
         for line in f: