git: a8dccfa7462b - main - RELNOTES: ps(1): Change in behavior for option '-U'

From: Olivier Certner <olce_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:23:38 UTC
The branch main has been updated by olce:

URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=a8dccfa7462b47e326a863d06f5575e4ed11b5be

commit a8dccfa7462b47e326a863d06f5575e4ed11b5be
Author:     Olivier Certner <olce@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2025-04-22 16:18:45 +0000
Commit:     Olivier Certner <olce@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-04-28 12:19:32 +0000

    RELNOTES: ps(1): Change in behavior for option '-U'
    
    MFC after:      3 days
    Sponsored by:   The FreeBSD Foundation
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 Changes to this file should not be MFCed.
 
+995b690d1398:
+	ps(1)'s '-U' option has been changed to select processes by their real
+	user IDs instead of their effective one, in accordance with POSIX and
+	the use case of wanting to list processes launched by some user, which
+	is expected to be more frequent than listing processes having the rights
+	of some user.  This only affects the selection of processes whose real
+	and effective user IDs differ.	After this change, ps(1)'s '-U' flag
+	behaves differently then in other BSDs but identically to that of
+	Linux's procps and illumos.
+
 1aabbb25c9f9:
 	ps(1)'s default list of processes now comes from matching its effective
 	user ID instead of its real user ID with the effective user ID of all