[BusyBox] Problems with ps (busybox ps and tinyps both)

[Erik Andersen]

On Mon Apr 09, 2001 at 06:25:20PM -0500, David Douthitt wrote:
> I previously compiled tinyps (with glibc 2.0.7) and have been using it
> in a glibc 2.0.7 environment.  Recently I shifted to a glibc 2.1.3
> environment, and tinyps stopped working - it gives a SegFault right
> after the title line.
> 
> I thought this was just the time to shift to busybox ps - after all,
> that is much more likely to work in my opinion.  However, the results
> were exactly the same: SegFault right after title line.  busybox was
> also compiled against glibc 2.0 libraries.
> 
> I'd like to find out what the trouble is.  I may just compile busybox
> for glibc 2.1, but it would be nice to find out why it (and tinyps)
> breaks...

any chance we could have you compile with debugging enabled and
try the problem case again running under gdb?  Or can you give 
us an strace or ltrace?   As is, I have tried it with libc5,
uClibc, glibc 2.1.3, and glibc 2.2.2 and it works for 
all of those...

 -Erik

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