Sometimes due to race conditions or the way dejagnu gates the
output, or even there is another interesting process, the ps tests
sometimes fail. These changes make it a little more lenient without
losing the purpose of the test.
Replaces Debian patch ps_tests
References:
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/procps/-/blob/debian/2%253.3.17-7/debian/patches/ps_checks
The previous commit had one minor bug in it because the fields need
to be alphabetical and times comes after timeout.
Added NEWS item for this feature
Added another testsuite check for new flags in case they
disappear or go strange one day.
References:
commit 8a94ed6111
On some setups the signals count can change and be truncated. You
will notice this because the number will have "<" prepended. The
testsuite didn't handle this.
You could either get:
BLOCKED BLOCKED BLOCKED CAUGHT
CAUGHT CATCHED
0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001f3d1fef9 00000001f3d1fef9 00000001f3d1fef9
or
BLOCKED BLOCKED BLOCKED CAUGHT CAUGHT CATCHED
00000000 00000000 00000000 <f3d1fef9 <f3d1fef9 <f3d1fef9
The ps sched test has been disabled. There are too many
odd build farms this fails in strange ways.
Other odd build farms have no tty and so some tests check
for no tty and skip if not found.
