ps output redirection problem

Denis Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Wed Mar 28 14:55:57 PDT 2007


On Wednesday 28 March 2007 23:05, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 03:25:29PM +0200, Ignacio García Pérez wrote:
> >Made some more tests...
> >
> >I installed bash and tried ps with the same baffling results, which 
> >means the problem is not in the busybox shell I'm using (ash).
> >
> >Again, any clues welcome...

libc bug in printf("%.*s\n", MAX_INT, buffer);

Wroked around by replacing MAX_INT by 30000 here:

        terminal_width = 30000;
        if (isatty(1)) {
                get_terminal_width_height(1, &terminal_width, NULL);
                terminal_width--;
        }

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