git: 4e4739dd0745 - stable/14 - RELNOTES: ps(1): Change in behavior for option '-U'
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Date: Thu, 01 May 2025 19:51:47 UTC
The branch stable/14 has been updated by olce:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=4e4739dd0745e04940cb01848a1faf2b8cf08efc
commit 4e4739dd0745e04940cb01848a1faf2b8cf08efc
Author: Olivier Certner <olce@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2025-04-22 16:18:45 +0000
Commit: Olivier Certner <olce@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-05-01 19:45:48 +0000
RELNOTES: ps(1): Change in behavior for option '-U'
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
(cherry picked from commit a8dccfa7462b47e326a863d06f5575e4ed11b5be)
Commit hash edited on MFC.
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1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/RELNOTES b/RELNOTES
index bea7e78c3a2b..82c0aacd97ee 100644
--- a/RELNOTES
+++ b/RELNOTES
@@ -10,6 +10,16 @@ newline. Entries should be separated by a newline.
Changes to this file should not be MFCed.
+a2132d91739d:
+ ps(1)'s '-U' option has been changed to select processes by their real
+ user IDs instead of their effective one, in accordance with POSIX and
+ the use case of wanting to list processes launched by some user, which
+ is expected to be more frequent than listing processes having the rights
+ of some user. This only affects the selection of processes whose real
+ and effective user IDs differ. After this change, ps(1)'s '-U' flag
+ behaves differently then in other BSDs but identically to that of
+ Linux's procps and illumos.
+
1e8dc267ca91:
ps(1)'s default list of processes now comes from matching its effective
user ID instead of its real user ID with the effective user ID of all