Debian Patches
Status for procps/2:4.0.4-9
| Patch | Description | Author | Forwarded | Bugs | Origin | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| remove_strtod_tests | Remove strtol tests On some architectures strol tests fail so we will skip them here | Craig Small <csmall@debian.org> | no | debian | 2024-10-15 | |
| ps_no_path_max | no | |||||
| disable_sched_test | Disable ps sched test Disables the command to test the class of scheduler used in ps -o cls For some reason, some Debian buildds fail on this test, however running the command in the environment works, chalk it down to buildd oddness and move along. |
Craig Small <csmall@debian.org> | no | debian | Debian | 2024-10-15 |
| uptime_test | w test add FROM column The tests assume you haven't enabled the FROM column for w by default Debian has this enabled by default |
Craig Small <csmall@debian.org> | no | Debian | 2024-10-15 | |
| makefile_w_link_systemd | Makefile link w to libsystemd | Craig Small <csmall@debian.org> | yes | 2024-10-15 | ||
| pmap_test | pmap tests Make the double value check have a looser regex Skip pmap -X 1 if the file doesn't exist or is readable |
Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz> | yes | 2024-10-15 | ||
| w_no_crash_short | ps: Don't crash when using short option ps would crash with the -si or -sf options with systemd enabled. The issue was the utmp wasn't filled in, the long option checked, the short option did not. . Refactored the showinfo() function so instead of a branch with duplicate prints for the items in both long and short we just branch on the items for long output. . Also, made the function prototypes not dependendent on systemd enabled, it was too messy that way and passing a char* NULL is not really going to hurt anything |
Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz> | yes | upstream | upstream, https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/79042e07fab9956135a21b1df7a69d1fbde7ef79 | 2025-04-13 |
| w_cache_pids | no | |||||
| w_lib_count_user_sessions | library,w: Only show and count user sessions Previously all sessions were used library - procps_users counted sessions, not user sessions w - showed all sessions, not user sessions |
Craig Small <csmall@debian.org> | no | upstream, https://github.com/warmchang/procps/commit/734930e4766860b7e57f0a3ae7d7f908f5d56153 | 2025-04-13 | |
| vmstat8_siso_units | vmstat.8: --unit changes si/so The --unit option said si/so were not changed. The si/so description said they were. The code, which is the final decision, says yes. . Update vmstat.8 to remove note that si/so not changed by --unit |
Craig Small <csmall@debian.org> | no | debian | upstream, https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/43ece4d2b0b8d5163ed118e76eff98c4988620db | 2025-04-13 |
| snice_help | snice minor help screen fix Fixes a lonesome : in snice and skill | no | debian | upstream, https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/afb4bc0146c33c3ea0b1d4a5bc842edc89d16403 | 2025-04-13 | |
| kill_negative_pids | kill: Correctly parse negative pids kill would only correctly parse single digit negative pids because it was using the optopt which is a single character, it now uses the entire argument. |
no | upstream, https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/bfbaf43acade8c9de38737e87f4fc535991c8359 | 2025-04-13 | ||
| w1_utmp_not_systemd | w.1: mention utmp only for non systemd | no | debian | upstream, https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/ce35d5a21f948408ab4698ca87e6b35c9fb4e942 | 2025-04-14 | |
| sysctl8_verboten_keys | sysctl: Add verboten keys sysctl --all goes through the entire /proc/sys tree. For the majority of parameters, reading the virtual file does nothing except print a value. . However stat_refresh gives no output but flushes the vm data. sysctl now has a verboten list which is a list of parameters that should never be read with --all. |
Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz> | no | debian | upstream, https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/276253f09245498008212303935675354856fd37 | 2025-04-14 |
| watch1_chgexit_only_visible | watch.8 --chgexit only on visible changes watch only exits on changes that are visible. This is a by-product of how changes are detected which is in the ncurses idea of windows. . The limits of change detection is also why multicolours can't be implemented, so a large re-work of how the output is stored and displayed may fix both. |
no | debian | upstream, https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/f2ea334fe3f618c3a08e64f5ef0b5ef8e62add1f | 2025-04-14 | |
| w_idletime_tty | w: print idletime if there is a tty w would try to stat() the tty device, which could be a problem if there isn't one defined for a user. |
Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> | no | upstream, https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/214a8421f8c81668c96ee489781a2b104f56e7e1 | 2025-04-14 | |
| w_array_bound_for_tty | w: Set array bound for tty There is no guarantee that the length of whatever sd_session_get_tty() returns is going to be under UT_LINESIZE so copying until strlen of the source string could be an issue. . Instead copy at most UT_LINESIZE-1 characters and break if the source string is at '\0' |
Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> | no | upstream, https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/241cb88542c862a4e682fb64884b4c993c176554 | 2025-04-14 | |
| w_terminal_mode | w: Add terminal mode Additional option for w -t/--terminal . Instead of running through either the systemd sessions or utmp entries this option sorts the proccesses by TTY and finds ones with a valid TTY entry. . getty processes are assumed to have a PPID or 0 or 1, to be excluded from user processes. . Some noteable differences: * session leaders for utmp systems will be one process below which is the first process running on that device, this changes the -p option * Remote hosts are based on the session, not device. So a user that ssh's and runs screen will have the ssh session and the screens showing a remote IP. Almost no tools differentiate between the session running screen and its screens so its not real big difference. * From/IP won't work for utmp systems . This patch includes the upstreams original commit and the enhancement. . Updated 2025-07-23 to avoid acting on the value of uninitialized sessions variable. |
Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz> | no | upstream, https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/f53cc24d57085c87ebb1871b92c0069b72a60926 | 2025-07-23 | |
| w_process_tty | w: Use process TTY as backup user TTY Sometimes we cannot directly find the TTY for a user session, so this commit puts all the methods into a single function called get_session_tty() which will (in order) use: * systemd's sd_session_get_tty * utmp->ut_line then (and this is new): * Get the session leader of the session, either via sd_session_get_leader() or ut->ut_pid and scan the pids stack for children and grand-children until we find something with a TTY. . w now carries around the ttyname (pts/2) not the ttypath (/dev/pts/2) which removed a lot of the ttyname+5 stuff. . The process cache is sorted by PIDS_TICS_BEGAN for all modes, not just tty mode because we will miss {grand,}children if there has been a pid wrap. . Bonus benefit is the "best" process is better now. |
Craig Small <csmall@debian.org> | no | debian | upstream, https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/41c12e27122319229633b515c8f99cf6b73ca8d8 | 2025-04-14 |
| library_0_days_users | library: days/users when value is 0 The check for using days/users was > 0 which meant you could get results like 0 day or 0 user. The check is now for not 1 so w prints 0 days and 0 users. |
no | upstream, https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/91ff8d99592afd0906cc564b46bbd503a9d4175f | 2025-04-14 | ||
| library_lxc_leak | library: Recover from meminfo seek() in LXC Running procps tools under LXC may fail with the message: "Unable to create meminfo structure" . This is due to a lseek() failing with a ESPIPE error. It doesn't appear to impact all LXC installations and it's unclear why some are impacted and some not. . The fix is to check for that error and reopen the file if required. |
Paul Slootman <paul@debian.org> | no | debian | upstream, https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/104b3ce3df67092eeb868ba5e019cb895ebdf32d | 2025-04-14 |
| sysctl_conf5_update | sysctl.conf.8 Various updates Update sysctl.conf.8 so its the same as the current upstream. Branden's content and style updates Branden's TH style fixes Craigs format updates and note about systemd-sysctl |
G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com> | no | debian | upstream | 2025-04-14 |
| library_use_clock_gettime | library: procps_uptime -> clock_gettime, in <pids> api Use clock_gettime instead of procps_uptime for boot time. This will mean we can get the correct clock even if the system is in a container or pidfs mounted with subset=pid |
Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net> | no | debian | upstream | 2025-04-14 |
| w_sessions_without_sd | w: Get sessions even if !sd_booted() Use sd_get_sessions() to determine whether systemd-style session recording is in use rather than checking for sd_booted(), but only fall back to reading utmp if !sd_booted(). This allows sessions to be listed that have been recorded by elogind. |
Andrew Bower <andrew@bower.uk> | no | debian | 2025-07-27 |