Re: Smoke 18752 GNU/Linux RedHat 7.2 2.4.20-1jv.7.x

[Quoting Johan Vromans, on February 21 2003, 11:02, in "Re: Smoke 18752 GNU/"]
> This version of ps supports several environment variables to control its
> behaviour and output. I'll check them out.

It appears that the environment variable I_WANT_A_BROKEN_PS, which is
documented to only affect the way ps accept its command line options,
also has impact on the output:

  phoenix:jv [~] % ps -f
  UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
  jv       10186 10139  0 11:45 pts/4    00:00:00 -bin/tcsh -i
  jv       10192 10186  0 11:45 pts/4    00:00:00 ps -f
  phoenix:jv [~] % env I_WANT_A_BROKEN_PS=yes ps -f
    PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
  10186 pts/4    S      0:00 -bin/tcsh -i
  10193 pts/4    R      0:00 ps -f
  phoenix:jv [~] % 

Removing this environment variable fixes the problem, all tests pass.

We might consider to run the tests under a strictly controlled
environment, i.e., only pass the variables we want to.

-- Johan