GNU bug report logs - #29968
Was "ps ef" intending to be "ps -ef"?

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Package: gzip;

Reported by: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>

Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 21:10:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

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From: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
To: bug-gzip <at> gnu.org
Subject: Was "ps ef" intending to be "ps -ef"?
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 14:09:14 -0700

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Thanks. I installed the attached slightly-simpler patch into Gnulib, and it
> should appear in the next Gzip release.

> -  cmds_='date; date +%N; free; who -a; w; ps auxww; ps ef; netstat -n'
> +  cmds_='date; date +%N; free; who -a; w; ps auxww; ps ef'

I saw this in passing and it looks like there was another previous bug
there already.  I see "ps auxww; ps ef;" and I think immediately that
the original intention must have been "ps auxww; ps -ef;" since that
would be the normal idioms for BSD style and SysV style ps.

Which I think means this change is begging to be made:

-  cmds_='date; date +%N; free; who -a; w; ps auxww; ps ef'
+  cmds_='date; date +%N; free; who -a; w; ps auxww; ps -ef'

Bob
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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>, 29968 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29968: Was "ps ef" intending to be "ps -ef"?
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 13:31:37 -0800

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On 01/03/2018 01:09 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> -  cmds_='date; date +%N; free; who -a; w; ps auxww; ps ef'
> +  cmds_='date; date +%N; free; who -a; w; ps auxww; ps -ef'

Thanks, I installed that, along with similar fixes to build-aux/mktempd.


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From: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 29968 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#29968: Was "ps ef" intending to be "ps -ef"?
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 15:34:22 -0700

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > -  cmds_='date; date +%N; free; who -a; w; ps auxww; ps ef'
> > +  cmds_='date; date +%N; free; who -a; w; ps auxww; ps -ef'
> 
> Thanks, I installed that, along with similar fixes to build-aux/mktempd.

Awesome!  Thanks!

Bob
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