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darwin "ps" display parsing in OS-X Tiger causes all procs to vanish in display

list Henrik Størner
Tue, 25 Jul 2006 23:02:53 +0200
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On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 03:52:38PM -0500, Brodie, Kent wrote:
OS-X 10.4 (procs display is broken)

  PID  PPID USER     STARTED STAT PRI %CPU      TIME %MEM    RSS
VSZ COMMAND
    1     0 root     13Jul06 S<s   32   0.0   0:17.23 -0.0    500 28348 /sbin/launchd

It's the first line that's causing the hobbit procs parsing to break.
Specifically, the "S<s" status.     While I don't know enough OS-X tobe
dangerous, I suspect it's a new type of process status under the latest
Darwin.   The "<" in the status is normal, and this is causing the procs
parsing in hobbit to cut off everything beyond that.
This of course makes any procs check useless (in my case,I was checking
for simple things, like "cron", etc - and the test fails of course,
since there's no such (or any other!) process listed..................
I can see why it would stop it from appearing on the web page (since
your browser then interprets everything after the '<' as an unknown
- very large - HTML tag. But the client parsing code works regardless of
this, and should handle the process listing just fine.

Could you verify if the following URL
 http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=voodoo.hswn.dk&section=ps
(adapted to match you Hobbit server hostname and the OSX client name, of
course) returns the full "ps" listing, or only a part of it?


Regards,
Henrik