Bug 177543 – sys-process/procps-3.2.7 works only once: watch grep "cpu MHz" /proc/cpuinfo

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Toralf Förster 2007-05-07 19:31:10 UTC]

Although this works :
$>watch grep \"cpu MHz\" /proc/cpuinfo

I'm wondering whether it's a bug or a feature that

$>watch grep "cpu MHz" /proc/cpuinfo

works only 1 time resulting in the error :
grep: MHz: No such file or directory



Reproducible: Always




tfoerste@n22 ~ $ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.2.2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.5-r2, 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Mon, 07 May 2007 17:20:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r5
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/php/apache1-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://85.25.128.62 http://gentoo.mneisen.org/ http://gentoo.prz.rzeszow.pl http://194.117.143.72/"
LINGUAS="de en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X aac acpi alsa apache2 arts asf berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cairo cddb clamav cli cracklib crypt css cups dri dvd dvdr dvdread dynamicplugin exif fam fastbuild fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 hdaps i8x0 iconv ipv6 isdnlog jai java javascript jimi jpeg libg++ logrotate madwifi mbox midi mikmod mmx mmxext mp3 mp4 mysql ncurses nls no-seamonkey nptl nptlonly nsplugin opengl pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python rdesktop readline real reflection rtc samba session spl sse sse2 ssl subversion svg tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode userlocales wifi win32codecs x86 xml xorg xpm zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0 intel8x0m" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" CAMERAS="sonydscw50 ptp2" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse joystick evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vga radeon"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2007-05-07 21:51:15 UTC]

limitation in the code ... it takes your arguments and passes it popen() and does not requote them

[Comment 2 Toralf Förster 2007-05-08 08:01:13 UTC]

I asked the mailing list [e-mail] for this.