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ps: ps -ef output formatting differs from oracle #520

Description

@matt-dz

Summary

rshell and the oracle produced different pwd pwd; uname -a; ps -ef | grep -E "kubelet|containerd|elasticsearch|kafka|mezmo" | grep -v grep results.

Command

pwd; uname -a; ps -ef | grep -E "kubelet|containerd|elasticsearch|kafka|mezmo" | grep -v grep

Reduced command shape: pwd; uname -a; ps -ef | grep -E "kubelet|containerd|elasticsearch|kafka|mezmo" | grep -v grep

Expected (oracle)

Exit code: 0

stdout:

/
Linux pshim-control-plane 6.17.0-1016-gcp #17~24.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri May  8 07:28:18 UTC 2026 aarch64 GNU/Linux
root         165       1  2 15:25 ?        00:02:51 /usr/local/bin/containerd
root         291       1  0 15:25 ?        00:00:01 /usr/local/bin/containerd-shim-runc-v2 -namespace k8s.io -id 3fe44819fb201156dceeeb97fa817430d9b765cfe73b649a0fa9dd8c296e930e -address /run/containerd/containerd.sock
root         292       1  0 15:25 ?        00:00:01 /usr/local/bin/containerd-shim-runc-v2 -namespace k8s.io -id 1cadb0ba5c4bbafcbfd19ee25703a165124c54d0a087e0bbab4ace41683f0c42 -address /run/containerd/containerd.sock
root         296       1  0 15:25 ?        00:00:01 /usr/local/bin/containerd-shim-runc-v2 -namespace k8s.io -id 3b700e0b4fc593b09fc468830f52a31cc550271d69c9eaa1e498372ae044f129 -address /run/containerd/containerd.sock
root         330       1  0 15:25 ?        00:00:01 /usr/local/bin/containerd-shim-runc-v2 -namespace k8s.io -id 871747464f9747f2940df11a6ce7f1163e470c05dbe05ff21b54f2975530b26c -address /run/containerd/containerd.sock
root         597     296  3 15:25 ?        00:03:37 kube-apiserver --advertise-address=172.18.0.2 --allow-privil
... <truncated>

stderr:

(empty)

Actual (rshell)

Exit code: 0

stdout:

/
Linux pshim-control-plane 6.17.0-1016-gcp #17~24.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri May  8 07:28:18 UTC 2026 aarch64
0              1275      1  0 15:25 ?            00:00:01 containerd-shim
0              1307      1  0 15:25 ?            00:00:01 containerd-shim
0               165      1  0 15:25 ?            00:02:51 containerd
0               291      1  0 15:25 ?            00:00:01 containerd-shim
0               292      1  0 15:25 ?            00:00:01 containerd-shim
0               296      1  0 15:25 ?            00:00:01 containerd-shim
0               330      1  0 15:25 ?            00:00:01 containerd-shim
0              3320      1  0 15:25 ?            00:00:01 containerd-shim
0              3338      1  0 15:25 ?            00:00:01 containerd-shim
0              3355      1  0 15:25 ?            00:00:01 containerd-shim
0             44475      1  0 17:12 ?            00:00:00 containerd-shim
0             44556      1  0 17:12 ?            00:00:00 containerd-shim
0             44607      1  0 17:12 ?            00:00:00 containerd-shim
0             44622      1  0 17:12 ?            00:00:00 containerd-shim
0             45253      1  0 17:12 ?
... <truncated>

stderr:

(empty)

Why This Matters

The QA run observed this command shape in 1 invocation across 1 scenario.

QA provenance
  • QA run id: run-20260603t152010z-pwd
  • Target builtin: pwd
  • Rshell commit/version: unknown
  • Example invocation: inv-20260603T172400.297507151Z-7235e057
  • Observed invocations: 1
  • Scenario count: 1
  • Differing dimension: stdout
  • Behavior cluster: pwd-unexpected-stdout:pwd; uname -a; ps -ef | grep -E "kubelet|containerd|elasticsearch|kafka|mezmo" | grep -v grep

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