[procps] rhbz#737215 - ps does not resolve some user names
- From: Jaromir Capik <jcapik@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: procps-ng <procps@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:56:06 -0400 (EDT)
Hello guys.
I recently found a forgotten bug in my list, in scope of which
one of the ps features was discussed and we found it's usefulness
a bit controversial.
Szymon Miotk reported, that he sometimes gets UIDs instead of usernames
in the UID column. After some investigation we found, that this is
a ps feature. UID is displayed if the username is too long to fit
in the column. This feature was very probably introduced to avoid
breaking the line format/indentation. But as the UIDs can currently
have 10 digits, the indentation gets broken anyway.
I promised I'll discuss that with you.
Do you find reasonable to modify the code to show just a part
of the username (followed by star or something) if the username
doesn't fit? This "auto-magic" apparently leads to cunfusions.
Please, let me know.
Regards,
Jaromir.
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Jaromir Capik
Red Hat Czech, s.r.o.
Software Engineer / BaseOS
Email: jcapik@xxxxxxxxxx
Web: www.cz.redhat.com
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