[SUREFIRE-2187] ps -p does not work in alpine or busy box by default

**[Martin Sillence](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=msillence)** opened **[SUREFIRE-2187](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SUREFIRE-2187?redirect=false)** and commented

Our builds were failing with the error:

System.exit() or native command error interrupted process checker.
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot use PPID 687 process information. Going to use NOOP events.
    at org.apache.maven.surefire.booter.PpidChecker.checkProcessInfo(PpidChecker.java:155)

checking the code it looks like you run ps -p:

https://github.com/apache/maven-surefire/blob/47eb1974ef2fb77c621e5cb0c47ac10ab8f4753d/surefire-booter/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/surefire/booter/PpidChecker.java#L186C59-L186C71

installing procps in alipine seems to fix it

I wonder if it is possible add something to check if ps supports the -p flag as I imagine I'm not the only one to use alpine to build software?

Simply adding an error that the ps doesn't support -p would save significant time

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**Affects:** 3.0.0

Start in surefire-booter/src/main/java/org/apache/maven/surefire/booter/PpidChecker.java, especially checkProcessInfo and the ps -p invocation around line 186. Reproduce the process-checker failure in Alpine or BusyBox, then define completion as detecting unsupported -p usage and reporting a clear error instead of the current generic failure.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.