Package: procps Version: 2:3.3.15-2 Severity: minor File: /bin/ps Dear Maintainer,
the 'man ps' page says ********************* Note that "ps -aux" is distinct from "ps aux". The POSIX and UNIX standards require that "ps -aux" print all processes owned by a user named "x", as well as printing all processes that would be selected by the -a option. If the user named "x" does not exist, this ps may interpret the command as "ps aux" instead and print a warning. This behavior is intended to aid in transitioning old scripts and habits. It is fragile, subject to change, and thus should not be relied upon. *********************** I created a user with the name 'x'. It didn't make any difference between 'ps aux' and 'ps -aux'. Did the behavior change? Is the man page out of date? Or did I misinterpret the behavior. Greetings Tobias -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages procps depends on: ii init-system-helpers 1.56+nmu1 ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libncurses6 6.1+20181013-2 ii libncursesw6 6.1+20181013-2 ii libprocps7 2:3.3.15-2 ii libtinfo6 6.1+20181013-2 ii lsb-base 10.2019051400 Versions of packages procps recommends: ii psmisc 23.2-1 procps suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/sysctl.conf changed [not included] -- no debconf information
