Bug 1658369

Summary: eBPF tool 'biotop' has unusable -p option in man page
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: John Pittman <jpittman>
Component: bccAssignee: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Ziqian SUN (Zamir) <zsun>
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Priority: unspecified    
Version: 8.0CC: jhsiao, jmarchan, jolsa, jshortt, nweddle, rdossant, skozina, tcleveng, zsun
Target Milestone: rc   
Target Release: 8.1   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: 0.8.0-1 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed: 2019-11-05 20:42:19 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Depends On: 1680631    
Bug Blocks: 1696304    

Description John Pittman 2018-12-11 21:10:25 UTC
Description of problem:

eBPF tool 'biotop' has unusable -p option in man page

       -p PID Trace this PID only.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

kernel-4.18.0-40.el8.x86_64
bcc-0.7.0-3.el8.x86_64
bcc-tools-0.7.0-3.el8.x86_64

Steps to Reproduce:

[root@localhost tools]# pwd
/usr/share/bcc/tools

[root@localhost tools]# ./biotop -p
usage: biotop [-h] [-C] [-r MAXROWS] [interval] [count]
biotop: error: unrecognized arguments: -p


Actual results:

Unusable option in man page

Expected results:

Unusable option removed from man page

Comment 1 Jerome Marchand 2018-12-12 09:29:03 UTC
Indeed, it appears in the options section, but not on the synopsis nor in "biotop -h" output. The all option section has been added in one commit: I suspect a hasty copy-paste from an other tool.

Comment 2 Jerome Marchand 2018-12-13 13:26:01 UTC
*** Bug 1658778 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-05 20:42:19 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:3327