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    Problem Report Number 0581
    Submitter's Classification Test Suite problem
    State Resolved
    Resolution Rejected (REJ)
    Problem Resolution ID REJ.X.0185
    Raised 1970-01-01 08:00
    Updated 2003-03-13 08:00
    Published null
    Product Standard Commands and Utilities V2 (UNIX 95)
    Certification Program The Open Brand certification program
    Test Suite VSC version 4.1.5
    Test Identification POSIX.upe/ps 813
    Problem Summary PG4C.00092 The IR claims that the tab character is an invalid blank character.
    Problem Text
    The proclist must be a single argument in the form of a blank- or
    comma-separated list. But in tp813(), proclist is separated by the tab
    charcter.
    Proclist is created as follow in tp813():
    ps -o pid="" | tr -d " " | paste -s - > space_sep_list
    The default operation of paste will concatenate the corresponding lines
    of the input files with the tab chracter.
    Test Output
    -------- ps
    200|1 1 13:13:07|TP Start
    520|1 1 819 1 1|Assertion #813 (A): -p proclist writes information for process
    520|1 1 819 1 2| <LC> es whose PID numbers are given in proclist.
    520|1 1 819 1 11|Expected exit code = 0; Received 1
    520|1 1 819 1 12|Standard output is empty
    520|1 1 819 1 13|Expected exit code = 0; Received 1
    520|1 1 819 1 14|Standard output is empty
    220|1 1 1 13:13:08|FAIL
    410|1 813 1 13:13:08|IC End

    Review Information

    Review Type TSMA Review
    Start Date null
    Completed null
    Status Complete
    Review Recommendation No Resolution Given
    Review Response
    We recommend this request be refused.

    We believe the test is correct.

    The standard defines a blank character in the XBD, page 8:

    blank character
    One of the characters that belong to the blank
    character class as defined via the LC_CTYPE category
    in the current locale. In the POSIX locale, a blank
    character is either a tab or a space character.

    As a result, the -p proclist argument is allowed to be a tab-separated
    list of PIDs.

    Review Type SA Review
    Start Date null
    Completed null
    Status Complete
    Review Resolution Rejected (REJ)
    Review Conclusion
    This request is refused.

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