bin/171174: ps(1) shows bad error message with specific arguments
Devin Teske
dteske at FreeBSD.org
Wed Aug 29 21:10:05 UTC 2012
>Number: 171174
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: ps(1) shows bad error message with specific arguments
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Aug 29 21:10:01 UTC 2012
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Devin Teske
>Release: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT amd64
>Organization:
FIS Global, Inc.
>Environment:
FreeBSD ref10-amd64.freebsd.org 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0 r231914: Sun Feb 19 17:24:37 UTC 2012 bz at glide.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/scratch/src/sys/GLIDE amd64
>Description:
Executing "ps -p ''" produces an appropriate error message (shown below):
ps: Invalid (zero-length) process id
However, when one executes instead "ps -o ucomm -p ''", the error message contains a corrupted string (shown below):
ps: Invalid process id: PfÐ
>How-To-Repeat:
Use the "-o" flag with any value in conjunction with "-p" passed a NULL (zero-length) argument.
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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