Weird console bug
Ivan Radovanovic
rivanr at gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 20:36:23 UTC 2009
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> 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
>
PR submitted
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