Re: Odd Little Bug in ps(1)?

[Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Hi Ted,

Ted Spradley wrote:

> I think I've run into a strange little bug in the ps command:
>
> teeny$ ps -o  lstart        
>  [ ... ]
> teeny$ ps -o  lstart=""

> The man page for ps(1) says I can eliminate the header by adding the
> ="" after the keyword, and it does that but it also removes the info I
> want, the start time!

Thanks for reporting this.  There was a bit of a logic mixup specific
to the lstart column.  I've fixed this in -current and will request a
pullup to netbsd-8 and netbsd-9.

Cheers,
Simon.