Category: psmisc
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psmisc 23.0
I had to go check but it has been over 3 years since the last psmisc release back in February 2014. I really didn’t think it had been that long ago. Anyhow, with no further delay, psmisc version 23.0 has been released today! Update: 23.1 is out now, removed some debug line out of killall…
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psmisc 22.21 Released
Today as it was raining and I couldn’t do much gardening, psmisc version 22.21 was released. The files are located up on sourceforge at https://sourceforge.net/projects/psmisc/files/latest/download or at your favorite distro repository soon. Once again, thanks to all patch submitters, bug reports and translators for all their help in getting this out. Apologies to the translation…
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Careful with PIDs
Quick question, what is the lowest Process ID you will find? Most people (myself included until recently) would be able to say that the lowest number is 1 for the init process. Plenty of programs including ps and pstree have this assumption. This assumption bit me this week with Debian Bug 687829 where pstree on…
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psmisc 22.16 Released
psmisc version 22.16 was released today. It is a bugfix release that bascially fixes a problem around strings in C. Process name lengths are only supposed to be 16 characters long, so a 17 bye buffer is ok; until you have processes with brackets which means the string is 18 characters. The next wrinkle is…
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Unlucky sometimes
Sometimes life throws little curves at you to see if you are still awake, today has been one of those days. fglrx is (apparently) fixed I’ve had a long-running problem with fglrx on my laptop. The problem stems from ATI closed-source drivers with one of those laptops that has an ATI and Intel driver. It…