Hello Alex, Thanks for the review!
It abolutely makes sense i have filed the ticket here : https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/work_items/435 Updated the patch with link too here : https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/243853 Best Regards, Pratik ________________________________________ From: Alexander Kanavin <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2026 12:28 PM To: Pratik Farkase Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [OE-core][PATCH v1] procps: ptest: skip flaky pgrep full process name match test On Tue, 18 Aug 2026 at 10:34, Pratik Farkase via lists.openembedded.org <[email protected]> wrote: > +Subject: [PATCH] testsuite: skip pgrep full process name match test > + > +The "pgrep match against full process name" test uses pgrep -f with a > +regex pattern close to ARG_MAX in size (~100KB). This intermittently > +fails on qemuriscv64 where the process cmdline may not be fully visible > +in /proc/<pid>/cmdline at the time pgrep reads it, or the large regex > +match times out under TCG emulation. > + > +Skip this single test case while keeping all other pgrep tests which > +are reliable. > + > +https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16290 > + > +Upstream-Status: Inappropriate [OE-ptest specific: fails only under QEMU TCG > emulation] Hello Pratik, even though this shows up only under slow software emulation, it's still a race condition in the test, and should be reported upstream, so they can figure out how to sync the test properly. Can you please open a ticket, and update the patch with the link? Alex
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