Two new versions of procps
Michael K. Johnson
I've just released two new versions of procps.
The first is 1.2.10, which I hope is the final (or pretty close to
final) release of the 1.2.x series. Just a few minor bug fixes and
a move for libproc to the LGPL (always the intention, forgot to
make a new template when I started it years ago, oops).
The second is 2.0. That's far more interesting. I took Albert
Cahalan's latest snapshot and integrated it into my tree and made
a few changes and fixed a few bugs, but I'm sure that there are
more bugs to fix there, as compared to 1.2.x it is a relatively
untested release. Please hammer on 2.0 and report bugs to
procp...@redhat.com so that I can keep track of them, and if
you can send patches with your bug reports, that would be great.
I will not necessarily see your reports if you post them here --
I do scan linux-kernel but can't always read it in great depth...
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/sources/usr.bin/procps-1.2.10.tar.gz
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/sources/usr.bin/procps-2.0.tar.gz
I've also uploaded to metalab, but I don't know if they will take
two versions at once.
michaelkjohnson
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Dan Christian
When running "ps -p 2" or "ps 2", ps returns success even if the process
doesn't exist. This is different than the previous behavior and from other
Unix.
-Dan
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Michael K. Johnson
Dan Christian writes:
>For procps-2.0-2
>
>When running "ps -p 2" or "ps 2", ps returns success even if the process
>doesn't exist. This is different than the previous behavior and from other
>Unix.
Should be fixed in procps 2.0.1 (not out yet). Thanks for the bug report.
Please send procps bugs to procp...@redhat.com in the future, thanks!
Steven N. Hirsch
> For procps-2.0-2
>
> When running "ps -p 2" or "ps 2", ps returns success even if the process
> doesn't exist. This is different than the previous behavior and from other
> Unix.
The last time I tried Albert's version of procps, it broke all the RedHat
SysV scripts. I'll take another look at it now, though.
Steve
Michael K. Johnson
"Steven N. Hirsch" writes:
>The last time I tried Albert's version of procps, it broke all the RedHat
>SysV scripts. I'll take another look at it now, though.
It still will, even with that bug fixed. procps 1.2.x use the h flag to
turn off header generation; Albert's version tries to implement every flag
ever available under any version of ps ever made (correct me if I am wrong,
Albert) and so h is overloaded -- turn off all header generation (specific
to old procps) and generate a header every page (long-time BSD meaning)
and he tries to distinguish between the two based on whether standard in
is a tty. Unfortunately, most scripts, including init scripts, run with
standard in being a tty, so the distinguisher doesn't work.
We're working on resolving this...
michaelkjohnson
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