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and subject line Re: Bug#1055126: procps: pgrep and pidwait are identical. one
should by a symlink to the other
has caused the Debian Bug report #1055126,
regarding procps: pgrep and pidwait are identical. one should by a symlink to
the other
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Package: procps
Version: 2:3.3.17-5
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
procps offers two identical files:
$ ls -al pgrep pidwait
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39344 Oct 9 06:02 pgrep
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 39344 Oct 9 06:02 pidwait
$ diff pgrep pidwait
Instead of wasting all this space one should be a symlink to the other.
I tested it on Debian 11, Debian 12 and Debian sid and they all have
this problem.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.8
APT prefers oldstable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500,
'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.15.130-20472-g682e24dd583b (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.60
ii libc6 2.31-13+deb11u7
ii libncurses6 6.2+20201114-2+deb11u2
ii libncursesw6 6.2+20201114-2+deb11u2
ii libprocps8 2:3.3.17-5
ii libtinfo6 6.2+20201114-2+deb11u2
ii lsb-base 11.1.0
Versions of packages procps recommends:
ii psmisc 23.4-2
procps suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
39 kB is not a lot of space. There was an attempt to ship these as
symlinks but it caused a bunch of issues. For really disk-constrained
systems there is busybox.
- Craig
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