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and subject line Fixed in 3.2.6
has caused the Debian Bug report #187808,
regarding procps: w reports pipelines incorrectly
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Package: procps
Version: 1:3.1.8-1
Severity: normal
When the first command in a pipeline dies, w treats it as if the whole
job is dead:
Run 'yes | less' in one terminal and do this in the other one:
$ w
14:03:56 up 7 days, 19:55, 10 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
herbert pts/1 mordor:S.0 29Mar03 1:41 2.24s 0.07s /bin/bash
/usr/bin/bug -x procps
herbert pts/2 mordor:S.1 29Mar03 21.00s 1.36s 0.01s yes
herbert pts/3 mordor:S.2 29Mar03 0.00s 1.77s 0.02s w
herbert pts/4 mordor:S.3 29Mar03 3:38m 0.36s 0.36s /bin/bash
herbert pts/5 mordor:S.4 29Mar03 7:36 0.28s 0.20s /bin/bash
herbert pts/6 mordor:S.5 29Mar03 3:41m 0.18s 0.18s /bin/bash
herbert pts/7 mordor:S.6 29Mar03 21:11m 0.05s 0.05s /bin/bash
herbert pts/8 mordor:S.7 29Mar03 21:11m 0.10s 0.10s /bin/bash
herbert pts/9 mordor:S.8 29Mar03 2days 0.55s 0.55s /bin/bash
herbert pts/10 mordor:S.9 29Mar03 2days 0.16s 0.16s /bin/bash
$ killall yes
$ w
14:04:09 up 7 days, 19:55, 10 users, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
herbert pts/1 mordor:S.0 29Mar03 1:54 2.25s 0.07s /bin/bash
/usr/bin/bug -x procps
herbert pts/2 mordor:S.1 29Mar03 34.00s 1.35s 1.34s /bin/bash
herbert pts/3 mordor:S.2 29Mar03 0.00s 1.78s 0.02s w
herbert pts/4 mordor:S.3 29Mar03 3:38m 0.36s 0.36s /bin/bash
herbert pts/5 mordor:S.4 29Mar03 7:49 0.28s 0.20s /bin/bash
herbert pts/6 mordor:S.5 29Mar03 3:41m 0.18s 0.18s /bin/bash
herbert pts/7 mordor:S.6 29Mar03 21:11m 0.05s 0.05s /bin/bash
herbert pts/8 mordor:S.7 29Mar03 21:11m 0.10s 0.10s /bin/bash
herbert pts/9 mordor:S.8 29Mar03 2days 0.55s 0.55s /bin/bash
herbert pts/10 mordor:S.9 29Mar03 2days 0.16s 0.16s /bin/bash
Of course less is still running in the foreground of pts/2.
This problem does not occur in woody.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux gondolin 2.4.20-1-686-smp #1 SMP Sat Mar 22 13:56:18 EST
2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
Versions of the packages procps depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libncurses5 5.3.20021109-2 Shared libraries for terminal handling
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Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.6-1
I no longer see this bug, I'm pretty sure back in 3.2.6 this was fixed.
- Craig
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