Display the running processes inside a podman container with podman top

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Documented steps

  1. Run podman top <container> to print processes similar to ps -ef.
  2. Add ps(1) AIX format descriptors plus podman extensions: podman top <container> pid seccomp args %C.
  3. Get host-context info with h* descriptors: podman top <name> hpid huser shows the host PID and host user of container processes.
  4. Pass ps(1) flags to fall back to exec'ing ps from the host: podman top <container> -- aux.
  5. Target the last created container with podman top --latest.

Known gotchas

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