procps-ng-3.3.17

[Pierre Labastie]

New point version. From procps mailing list (procps@…):

The procps-ng developers are pleased to announce that version 3.3.17 was
released today.  This version has some minor fixes and improvements and now
includes some translated manpages.  Other enhancements include:
 * New command pwait - waits for a given process to finish
 * Top handles more CPUs more gracefully
 * sysctl now follows the systemd version better, especially around
directory order

[Pierre Labastie]

Looks like the currency script as modified a couple of weeks ago did not pick it up (has been annouced 48 hours ago).

[Douglas R. Reno]

Keep in mind that we have a new command here, we should probably add a Short Description for it

[Bruce Dubbs]

The reason this was not picked up by the currency scripts is that it is not available at ​https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/tags. Only v3.3.17rc1 is there.

It is available at ​https://sourceforge.net/projects/procps-ng/files/Production/procps-ng-3.3.17.tar.xz

This tarball expands to the directory procps-3.3.17, not the expected procps-ng-3.3.17.

Should I repackage it and load on anduin?

[Bruce Dubbs]

It turns out that the package IS on gitlab, but the html source changed and the script didn't handle it properly. I've fixed the currency script. The repackage issue remains.

[Pierre Labastie]

As far as jhalfs is concerned, there is no problem with the repackage. It may confuse users, though. Actually, upstream is aware of the problem: see thread at ​https://www.freelists.org/post/procps/procpsng-3317-released,1

[Pierre Labastie]

Note that the pkill tests are reported to fail under certain circumstances (thread above).

[Bruce Dubbs]

procps-ng-3.3.17

• library: Incremented to 8:3:0 (no removals or additions, internal changes only)
• all: properly handle utf8 cmdline translations
• kill: Pass int to signalled process
• pgrep: Pass int to signalled process
• pgrep: Check sanity of SG_ARG_MAX
• pgrep: Add older than selection
• pidof: Quiet mode
• pidof: show worker threads
• ps.1: Mention stime alias
• ps: check also match on truncated 16 char comm names
• ps: Add exe output option
• ps: A lot more sorting available
• pwait: New command waits for a process
• sysctl: Match systemd directory order
• sysctl: Document directory order
• top: ensure config file backward compatibility
• top: add command line 'e' for symmetry with 'E'
• top: add '4' toggle for two abreast cpu display
• top: add '!' toggle for combining multiple cpus
• top: fix potential SEGV involving -p switch
• vmstat: Wide mode gives wider proc columns
• watch: Add environment variable for interval
• watch: Add no linewrap option
• watch: Support more colors
• free,uptime,slabtop: complain about extra ops

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at revision 12134.