On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 at 17:51, Petter Reinholdtsen <p...@hungry.com> wrote:
> Since 2022-12-05 the Debian sid builds of linuxcnc have failed. After > some days scratching our heads, we discovered that the problem > originated from 'ps' changout its output format. Running 'ps -o comm= > <pid>' used to include '<defunct>' if the process was a zombie, but with > the new version it no longer did. > Interesting, comm doesn't show it but cmd does. It happened in this commit https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/584028dbe513127ef68c55aa631480454bcc26bf That was 7 years ago, the function escape_command got duplicated into ps so it wasn't exposed from the library. The "add the defunct" bit wasn't, I'll try to see why. Matching on the state is a better idea anyway. - Craig
