ps and username size

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Saturday 05 January 2008 21:00, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> Noticed that several usernames on my debian sid box are longer than 8
> bytes:
> 
> ,----
> | Debian-exim:x:102:102::/var/spool/exim4:/bin/false
> | messagebus:x:103:104::/var/run/dbus:/bin/false
> | fetchmail:x:107:65534::/var/lib/fetchmail:/bin/sh
> | debarchiver:x:109:109:Deb archiving tool,,,:/var/lib/debarchiver:/bin/false
> | smokeping:x:127:127:SmokePing daemon,,,:/var/lib/smokeping:/bin/false
> | haldaemon:x:132:124:Hardware abstraction layer,,,:/home/haldaemon:/bin/false
> | email-reminder:x:1002:1003:Email-reminder mailer,,,:/var/spool/email-reminder:/bin/bash
> `----
> 
> ps from procps-3.2.7-5 shows such users using the uid instead of username:
> 
> ,----
> | 103       4469  0.0  0.0   2764   888 ?        Ss   15:52   0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-d
> | 127       4969  0.0  0.3  15468 12364 ?        Ss   15:52   0:00 /usr/sbin/smoke
> | 132       5241  0.0  0.1   5284  3352 ?        Ss   15:52   0:00 /usr/sbin/hald
> | 132       5273  0.0  0.0   2224   908 ?        S    15:52   0:00 hald-addon-acpi
> | 127      27372  0.0  0.0   2692   920 ?        S    21:28   0:00 /usr/bin/fping
> `----
> 
> bb-ps shifts 'VSZ STAT COMMAND' a few columns, adjusting to the username
> string size:
> 
> ,----
> |  4469 messagebus   2764 S   /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
> |  4969 smokeping  15468 S   /usr/sbin/smokeping [FPing]
> |  5241 haldaemon   5284 S   /usr/sbin/hald
> |  5265 root       3248 S   hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event4 /dev
> |  5273 haldaemon   2224 S   hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/
> `----

Thanks for the report. Using %-8.8s instead of %-8s fixes this.

I am also fixing VSZ overflow with large VSZs.

Will commit changes to svn in a minute.
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