Anders Johansson wrote:
Here's a phenomenon I haven't seen before
I happened to see in the output from "ps aux" these processes
ajh 31091 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zs Feb10 0:00 [mpl] <defunct> ajh 31476 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zs Feb10 0:00 [mpl] <defunct> ajh 31882 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zs Feb10 0:00 [mpl] <defunct> ajh 32288 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zs Feb10 0:00 [mpl] <defunct> ajh 32474 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zs Feb10 0:00 [mpl] <defunct> ajh 32517 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zs Feb10 0:00 [mpl] <defunct> ajh 32627 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zs Feb10 0:00 [mpl] <defunct>
I didn't know what "mpl" was, and spent some time searching for it. Then, for whatever reason, I wanted to refresh the ps list, so I did "ps aux|grep mpl", and I got this
ajh 31091 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zs Feb10 0:00 [mplayer] <defunct> ajh 31476 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zs Feb10 0:00 [mplayer] <defunct> ajh 31882 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zs Feb10 0:00 [mplayer] <defunct> ajh 32288 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zs Feb10 0:00 [mplayer] <defunct> ajh 32474 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zs Feb10 0:00 [mplayer] <defunct> ajh 32517 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zs Feb10 0:00 [mplayer] <defunct> ajh 32627 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Zs Feb10 0:00 [mplayer] <defunct>
So ps truncates individual fields in the output now based on the size of the output medium, instead of just cutting off the line?
That's something I have't seen before
Hmmmm. Sounds like it's time to see what the hell is going on over at the FSF. Such a thing should DEFINITELY not be the default behavior, but turned on only by an environment variable or command line flag.
Anders
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