Re: some procps--n4-4.0.0 fixes

Very strange, I'm seeing something different. For 3.3.17 yes I got those
strange results.
For 4.0.0 it just doesn't recognise the field at all. Running ps from the
newlib repository gives the correct behaviour

$ ps -o "%p"
error: unknown user-defined format specifier "%p"

Usage:
 ps [options]

 Try 'ps --help <simple|list|output|threads|misc|all>'
  or 'ps --help <s|l|o|t|m|a>'
 for additional help text.

For more details see ps(1).
$ ps/pscommand -o "%p"
    PID
   5127
  97595

On Sat, 9 Apr 2022 at 14:32, Jim Warner <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 4/8/22 10:47 PM, Craig Small wrote:
> > Could you give me a specific example of this issue it fixed, I think it
> > was something like ps -o %%blah or something like that but that specific
> > example I get a (correct) error message.
>
> Hi Craig,
>
> Without that patch, when I try:
>       ps/pscommand -o "%p %G{"
>
> I get:
>           PID GROUP   {
>         12793 warnerjc{
>         14486 warnerjc{
>
> Or if I do:
>       ps/pscommand -o "%p %%a"
>
> that yields:
>           PID %a
>         12793 %a
>         14497 %a
>
> But with the patch I get these instead:
>       error: improper AIX field descriptor
>       error: missing AIX field descriptor
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim
>