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and subject line Re: procps: ps -p should accept and empty list (and output
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regarding [ps] -p should accept and empty list (and output nothing)
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Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.7-3
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
It would be very useful if ps -p "" and similar would accept the empty
list of pids, output nothing and exit successfully. Now I have to
special case the "no such process" case in my scripts, which is
uncomfortable and error prone.
Thanks,
Feri.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libncurses5 5.5-5 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii lsb-base 3.1-23 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii psmisc 22.3-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy
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--- Begin Message ---
A script should test for an empty pid list (possibly test -z but there
are other ways. ps trying to work out what someone is doing will
probably lead to other problems.
You could have:
ps (null)
ps -p (null)
ps -o pid,cmd -p (null)
ps -p (null) -o pid,cmd
and probably a bunch of others. ps argument parsing is complex enough
without having to test for odd invalid arguments too.
- Craig
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