Bug 55980

Summary:	ps option to suppress threads
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Frank Hirtz <fhirtz>
Component:	procps	Assignee:	Daniel Walsh <dwalsh>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Version:	7.1	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Description Frank Hirtz 2001-11-09 20:24:20 UTC

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Description of problem:
We need an option to ps to suppress the display of threads.  The manpage
suggests a -m option to show threads (suggesting an obvious -M to suppress
them?) but the version shipped with Red Hat Linux responds "ps: error:
Thread display not implemented".

This is coming up in a number of contexts and so is a relatively high priority.

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This should be tied to the work that is already being done to have the
kernel export some information on threads (tgid) which should already be
underway.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.ps -m
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  ps: error: Thread display not implemented.


Additional info:

Comment 1 Alexander Larsson 2002-07-01 14:02:32 UTC

Fixed in 2.0.7-18

Comment 2 bdraco 2003-02-17 03:40:48 UTC

The "fix" leaves no way to display the complete list of pids (even if they are
just threads).   There should be an option to have the old behavior. -m doesn't
display them

Comment 3 Alexander Larsson 2003-02-17 10:47:14 UTC

On what system does -m not work?
It does work for me on e.g. RH 8.0.

Comment 4 Alexander Larsson 2004-02-05 10:30:59 UTC

Mass reassign to the new owner