[gentoo-dev] procps >= 2.0.7 not honoring BSD syntax

[gentoo-dev] procps >= 2.0.7 not honoring BSD syntax

[Bruce A. Locke]

I've uncommented the line in package.mask corresponding to this package
(don't know why it was blocked in the past and then unblocked).  The
version of ps in procps-2.0.7-r* is not correctly honoring BSD syntax and
thus I consider it to be broken.  "ps aux" only lists processes from the
current user while it is supposed to show the processes of all users.

Anyone know whats up?  Until this is resolved I'd recommend sticking with
2.0.6 for rc6....

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Bruce A. Locke
blocke@shivan.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] procps >= 2.0.7 not honoring BSD syntax

[Daniel Robbins]

On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 10:48:28PM -0500, Bruce A. Locke wrote:
> 
> I've uncommented the line in package.mask corresponding to this package
> (don't know why it was blocked in the past and then unblocked).  The
> version of ps in procps-2.0.7-r* is not correctly honoring BSD syntax and
> thus I consider it to be broken.  "ps aux" only lists processes from the
> current user while it is supposed to show the processes of all users.
> 
> Anyone know whats up?  Until this is resolved I'd recommend sticking with
> 2.0.6 for rc6....

OK, thanks.  Email the author for me and find out :)

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] procps >= 2.0.7 not honoring BSD syntax

[jano]

>
> Anyone know whats up?  Until this is resolved I'd recommend sticking
> with 2.0.6 for rc6....

Then please consider including the patch to show smp in top, if the
developers stick with 2.0.6.  I like to see both my processors at work :)

jano

Re: [gentoo-dev] procps >= 2.0.7 not honoring BSD syntax

[Thomas M. Beaudry]

On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 10:48:28PM -0500, Bruce A. Locke wrote:
> 
> I've uncommented the line in package.mask corresponding to this package
> (don't know why it was blocked in the past and then unblocked).  The
> version of ps in procps-2.0.7-r* is not correctly honoring BSD syntax and
> thus I consider it to be broken.  "ps aux" only lists processes from the
> current user while it is supposed to show the processes of all users.
> 
> Anyone know whats up?  Until this is resolved I'd recommend sticking with
> 2.0.6 for rc6....
> 

Must be an ebuild problem.  I've got a 2.0.7 built the old fashioned way
on my other machine and it works as it's supposed to.

-- 
Thomas M. Beaudry K8LA / YS1ZTM
k8la@arrl.net

Re: [gentoo-dev] procps >= 2.0.7 not honoring BSD syntax

[Daniel Robbins]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 07:50:05AM -0400, Thomas M. Beaudry wrote:

> Must be an ebuild problem.  I've got a 2.0.7 built the old fashioned way
> on my other machine and it works as it's supposed to.

It could be related to the patch that achim applied to procps.  Someone 
should try compiling procps without it.

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] procps >= 2.0.7 not honoring BSD syntax

[Bruce A. Locke]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001 09:18:25 -0600
Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 07:50:05AM -0400, Thomas M. Beaudry wrote:
> 
> > Must be an ebuild problem.  I've got a 2.0.7 built the old fashioned
way
> > on my other machine and it works as it's supposed to.
> 
> It could be related to the patch that achim applied to procps.  Someone 
> should try compiling procps without it.

Yes, it seems to be an issue with the patch.  If I don't apply it then `ps
aux` works fine.  I tried looking through the patch and didn't see any
easy fix (not that I'm familiar at all with the ps code).

Is this a custom gentoo patch or did we get it from another distro?

---------------------------------------------------------------------
Bruce A. Locke
blocke@shivan.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] procps >= 2.0.7 not honoring BSD syntax

[Daniel Robbins]

On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:51:52AM -0500, Bruce A. Locke wrote:

> Is this a custom gentoo patch or did we get it from another distro?

No clue; it was added by achim, and he didn't add a comment to the
ebuild.  If you could, please email him and ask where it came from.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] procps >= 2.0.7 not honoring BSD syntax

[Achim Gottinger]

Daniel Robbins wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 11:51:52AM -0500, Bruce A. Locke wrote:
> 
> > Is this a custom gentoo patch or did we get it from another distro?
> 
> No clue; it was added by achim, and he didn't add a comment to the
> ebuild.  If you could, please email him and ask where it came from.
> 

Hmm, I thought I blocked 2.0.7. The problem with 2.0.7 is that it
segfaults if the LANG environment variable is 
set. I found a patch for 2.0.6 on debians site which fixed this prb but
no patch for 2.0.7 so I tried to write
such a patch by myself. It's still a todo cuz I never finished this
work. Maybe there is a patch for 2.0.7 on
debians site which we can use. Sorry for the inconvenience I caused.

bye achim~

> Best Regards,
> 
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> Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
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