Linux 2.6.4 requires procps 3.2

PATCH New Albert Cahalan 1 participant 1 message Feb 23, 2004 Documentation

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Albert Cahalan

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2004-02-23 22:34 UTC #0 lore raw

PATCH 1/1 Linux 2.6.4 requires procps 3.2

Now that the /dev/pts filesystem uses 20-bit minor numbers, a new procps is required. Version 3.2 will work even if you don't upgrade glibc. Failure to upgrade procps will leave you with a messed-up TTY column when more than 255 or 256 PTYs are used.

http://procps.sf.net/

Documentation/Changes +1 -1

diff -Naurd old/Documentation/Changes new/Documentation/Changes
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 o  PPP                    2.4.0                   # pppd --version
 o  isdn4k-utils           3.1pre1                 # isdnctrl 2>&1|grep version
 o  nfs-utils              1.0.5                   # showmount --version
-o  procps                 3.1.13                  # ps --version
+o  procps                 3.2.0                   # ps --version
 o  oprofile               0.5.3                   # oprofiled --version
 
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