Re: Weird console bug

From: Ivan Radovanovic <rivanr_at_gmail.com> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:36:19 +0200 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:39:53 UTC

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