[hobbit] darwin "ps" display parsing in OS-X Tiger causes all procs to vanish in display

[Brodie, Kent]

Um, ok, so the parsing works, but that breaks a browser by attempting to
do the <....       I was able to fix it simply by removing the STATE
column from the process display for that one server....      

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Kent C. Brodie - brodie at phys.mcw.edu
Department of Physiology
Medical College of Wisconsin
(414) 456-8590

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 4:03 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] darwin "ps" display parsing in OS-X Tiger causes
all procs to vanish in display

On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 03:52:38PM -0500, Brodie, Kent wrote:
> 
> OS-X 10.4 (procs display is broken)
> 
>   PID  PPID USER     STARTED STAT PRI %CPU      TIME %MEM    RSS
> VSZ COMMAND
>     1     0 root     13Jul06 S<s   32   0.0   0:17.23 -0.0    500
28348 /sbin/launchd
> 
> It's the first line that's causing the hobbit procs parsing to break.
> Specifically, the "S<s" status.     While I don't know enough OS-X
tobe
> dangerous, I suspect it's a new type of process status under the
latest
> Darwin.   The "<" in the status is normal, and this is causing the
procs
> parsing in hobbit to cut off everything beyond that.

> This of course makes any procs check useless (in my case,I was
checking
> for simple things, like "cron", etc - and the test fails of course,
> since there's no such (or any other!) process listed..................

I can see why it would stop it from appearing on the web page (since
your browser then interprets everything after the '<' as an unknown
- very large - HTML tag. But the client parsing code works regardless of
this, and should handle the process listing just fine.

Could you verify if the following URL
 
http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=voodoo.hswn.dk&sectio
n=ps
(adapted to match you Hobbit server hostname and the OSX client name, of
course) returns the full "ps" listing, or only a part of it?


Regards,
Henrik


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