Month: December 2013

  • Debian's procps 3.3.9

    While the upstream procps which was released last week has a new pidof, the Debian package will continue to not have that binary and the Debian sysvint-utils package will continue to have that file. That stops any messy procps splits and putting one part into Essential etc. This may mean that one distributions pidof doesn’t…

  • procps-ng 3.3.9

    Procps version 3.3.9 was released today.  As there has been some API changes and fixes which means the library has changed again.  There is a fine balance between fixing or enhancing library functions and keeping the API stable, with the added problem it wasn’t a terribly good one to start with. Besides the API change,…