I wonder whether the right thing to do (as well as increasing the column width) on getting an overlength username is just to print it anyway and let the other columns get pushed accross? OK it's not pretty but you don't lose any information; I can't see that would break anything (if anyone is using cut to extract the field it will break with just increasing the width anyway).
They were probably right to stop truncating (as top does); there are plenty of home grown scripts which people use to grep the output of ps for things and a truncated username could give pretty random results. It feels like their should be some standard in Ubuntu about the length of default usernames; is there a reason that 'haldaemon' is not just 'hald'? 'avahi-autoipd' is just getting silly as is 'sabayon-admin'. Dave -- procps 3.2.3 onward use uids instead of usernames when they would truncate https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/14027 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
