Hi, I'm thinking of adding a quick and dirty check for a regex. A very quick set of characters to say "this is a regex" and suppress the warning. The first idea is just look for a '[' or a '|'. I think that covers most simple conditions. I'm not looking for some sort odd corner cases, just the main ones. I'm not even going to bother with checking if the regex is too long (e.g. somethingverylonghere|somethingelsethatisverylong) because this is a simple check.
Probably just scan the string looking for those chars and its done. - Craig On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 at 11:09, Jan Braun <janbr...@gmx.net> wrote: > Package: procps > Version: 2:4.0.3-1 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > Bug #896062 has come back from the grave: > > | $ pgrep "something|otherthing" > | pgrep: pattern that searches for process name longer than 15 characters > will result in zero matches > | Try `pgrep -f' option to match against the complete command line. > | $ > > Note *the regex* is longer than 15 chars, what gets matched is shorter. > > The 2018 fix was "new kernels have 64 char process names anyway", so I'm > surprised to see that I'm having process names limited to 15 chars in > 2023. But regardless of the actual limit, the warning is bogus. > > See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=896062 for full > rationale; everything there applies again, including my offer to help. > > Thank you for maintaining procps, > Jan > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 12.0 > APT prefers stable-debug > APT policy: (800, 'stable-debug'), (800, 'stable'), (650, > 'testing-debug'), (650, 'testing'), (550, 'unstable'), (10, 'experimental') > Architecture: armel (armv5tel) > > Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-9-marvell (UP) > Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not > set > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash > Init: runit (via /run/runit.stopit) > > Versions of packages procps depends on: > ii init-system-helpers 1.65.2 > ii libc6 2.36-9 > ii libncursesw6 6.4-4 > ii libproc2-0 2:4.0.3-1 > ii libtinfo6 6.4-4 > > Versions of packages procps recommends: > ii psmisc 23.6-1 > > procps suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information >
