Re: pgrep and pkill (any? arguments): cannot allocate 4294967295 bytes

[Paul Dufresne]

Grrhh! Sorry! Had diff arguments in reverse orders.



root@kibar:~/procps-3.3.16# diff -u ../orig/procps-3.3.16/pgrep.c pgrep.c

--- ../orig/procps-3.3.16/pgrep.c       2020-02-06 06:04:02.000000000 -0500

+++ pgrep.c     2021-02-02 11:39:44.000000000 -0500

@@ -498,6 +498,8 @@

        pid_t myself = getpid();

        struct el *list = NULL;

         long cmdlen = sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX) * sizeof(char);

+       if (cmdlen==-1) // sysconf returned "no limitations"

+               cmdlen=1000; // 1000 chars (arbitrary value)

        char *cmdline = xmalloc(cmdlen);

        char *cmdsearch = xmalloc(cmdlen);

        char *cmdoutput = xmalloc(cmdlen);

root@kibar:~/procps-3.3.16#