Bug#822861: killall: option --older-than breaks with german locale

[Mario Lipinski]

Hi,

it looks likee problemrchitecture dependent. I cannot reproduce the 
problem on my system running amd64 either. When using i386 userland, it 
breaks.


# dpkg --print-architecture
i386

# uname -r
3.16.0-4-amd64

# sleep 5 & LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 killall --older-than 1h sleep
[1] 18467
[1]+  Beendet sleep 5



# dpkg --print-architecture
i386

# uname -r
3.16.0-4-686-pae

# sleep 5 & LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 killall --older-than 1h sleep
[1] 19541
[1]+  Beendet sleep 5



HTH.


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Bug#822861: killall: option --older-than breaks with german locale

[Craig Small]

tag 822861 unreproducible
thankyou

Works ok here:
$ sleep 5 & LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 killall --older-than 1h sleep
[1] 20927
sleep: Kein Prozess gefunden

Normally a locale problem would be a strtol related issue and those options
use that function, but its often related to decimal point versus comma.
It's also strange its not even throwing an error if it didn't understand
the parsing. Does it do that for other units such as minute?



On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:03 PM Jörg Ludwig  wrote:

> Package: psmisc
> Version: 22.21-2
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> we wanted to kill stale programs with "killall --older-than".
>
> This works just fine with locale "C":
>
> # sleep 5 & LC_ALL=C killall --older-than 1h sleep
> [1] 10858
> sleep: no process found
>
> But with our locale "de_DE.UTF-8" it also kills newly created processes:
>
> # sleep 5 & LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 killall --older-than 1h sleep
> [1] 10711
> [1]+  Beendet sleep 5
>
> We would expect killall to work regardless of the used locale.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 8.4
>APT prefers stable-updates
>APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: amd64
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.14-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: unable to detect
>
> Versions of packages psmisc depends on:
> ii  libc6  2.19-18+deb8u4
> ii  libtinfo5  5.9+20140913-1+b1
>
> psmisc recommends no packages.
>
> psmisc suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
> --
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
>
> Jörg Ludwig
>
> IServ GmbH
> Bültenweg 73
> 38106 Braunschweig
>
> Telefon: 0531-2243666-0
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Bug#822861: killall: option --older-than breaks with german locale

[Jörg Ludwig]

Package: psmisc
Version: 22.21-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

we wanted to kill stale programs with "killall --older-than".

This works just fine with locale "C":

# sleep 5 & LC_ALL=C killall --older-than 1h sleep
[1] 10858
sleep: no process found

But with our locale "de_DE.UTF-8" it also kills newly created processes:

# sleep 5 & LC_ALL=de_DE.UTF-8 killall --older-than 1h sleep
[1] 10711
[1]+  Beendet sleep 5

We would expect killall to work regardless of the used locale.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: amd64

Kernel: Linux 3.14-0.bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: unable to detect

Versions of packages psmisc depends on:
ii  libc6  2.19-18+deb8u4
ii  libtinfo5  5.9+20140913-1+b1

psmisc recommends no packages.

psmisc suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Jörg Ludwig

IServ GmbH
Bültenweg 73
38106 Braunschweig

Telefon: 0531-2243666-0
Fax: 0531-2243666-9
Mobil:   0179-9101055
E-Mail:  joerg.lud...@iserv.eu
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