Weird console bug

Dag-Erling Smørgrav des at des.no
Mon Aug 10 20:33:35 UTC 2009


Ivan Radovanovic <rivanr at gmail.com> writes:
> Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> writes:
> > Ivan Radovanovic <rivanr at gmail.com> writes:
> > > ps -axj | grep opera
> > > You will receive different results depending on width on console
> > > window (for example, for me no results on normal text mode console,
> > > in X it depends on width of console you are executing above command
> > > in).
> > See the -w option to ps
> Thanks, anyway I find this behavior weird when redirecting or piping...

It's definitely a bug; ps(1) should check isatty().  Please file a PR.

DES
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