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Tag: Unix

  • ps standards and locales

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    I looked at two interesting issues today around the ps program in the procps project. One had a solution and the other I’m puzzled about. ps User-defined Format Issue #9 was quite the puzzle. The output of ps changed depending if a different option had a hyphen before it or not. First, the expected output…

  • Careful with PIDs

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    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…