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

On fredag, feb 21, 2003, at 11:49 Europe/Stockholm, Johan Vromans wrote:

>
> 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

Perhaps, but do we want to run under a broken ps :-)

I changed the regex to what Rafael suggest, it's in as change 18759.

Arthur