On 19-11-10 12:23, no-re...@cfengine.com wrote: > Forum: Cfengine Help > Subject: Re: Parent process selection > Author: mark > Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,19311,19329#msg-19329 > > This issue has not cropped up for a long time. The ps command has been > relatively stable for a long time, but it is very non-portable. Reading /proc > is useless unfortunately as it is only really an option for Linux (although > svr5/solaris supports some things), the same with reading from the kernel > itself - that is why ps is used to get the results. I'm not keen on libproc, > as it just introduces a dependence on something unknown for little value, and > as Eystein mentions, portability is a non-trivial issue. > > If you haven't registered the issue in the bug tracker, please do so, and by > all means suggest different ps options. >
I will report it. I have already reported some bugs that i have encounter with the ps command. -- ******************************************************************** * Bas van der Vlies e-mail: b...@sara.nl * * SARA - Academic Computing Services Amsterdam, The Netherlands * ******************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine