FW: Signal 11 caught by ps on Alpha

[Doug Larrick <doug@ties.org>]

I hit this problem and found it quite annoying, so I debugged & fixed it.  I'm
forwarding this to debian-alpha in case anyone else hits it before the
package can be fixed.  It's bug #52482 in Debian's bug tracking system.

-Doug

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Package: procps
Version: 1:2.0.6-2

On an Alpha system, ps 2.0.6-2 exits with Signal 11. Example:

jekyl:~$ ps
  PID TTY          TIME CMD


Signal 11 caught by ps (procps version 2.0.6).
Please send bug reports to <procps-bugs@redhat.com>

The problem is one of 32 vs. 64-bit pointers, in devname.c of libproc.so. A
parameter is declared as int that is really a pointer to char.  Diff follows:

*** devname.c   Fri Dec 10 21:31:23 19
--- devname.c~  Fri Dec 10 19:14:53 1999
***************
*** 137,143 ****
   * Useful names could be in /proc/PID/fd/2 (stderr, seldom redirected)
   * and in /proc/PID/fd/255 (used by bash to remember the tty).
   */
! static int link_name(char * const buf, int maj, int min, int pid, char *name){
   struct stat sbuf;
    char path[32];
    int count;
--- 137,143 ----
   * Useful names could be in /proc/PID/fd/2 (stderr, seldom redirected)
   * and in /proc/PID/fd/255 (used by bash to remember the tty).
   */
! static int link_name(char * const buf, int maj, int min, int pid, int name){
    struct stat sbuf;
    char path[32];
    int count;

-Doug Larrick