Android has a lot of long usernames. the bluetooth code, for example, runs as "bluetooth", and the camera code as "cameraserver". ideally the USER column would grow to fit (especially when the tty is very wide), but right now it's kind of narrow, doesn't grow, and truncates from left rather than the right:
USER PID PPID VSZ RSS WCHAN ADDR S NAME ... raserver 609 1 115152 43496 hread_read f4c10044 S cameraserver ... luetooth 13631 1 17808 1740 le_timeout 77105ff7e8 S wcnss_filter similarly for LABEL; we've been lucky so far in that all the labels i'd seen happen to be <= 30 characters, but for the first time i've started to see slightly longer ones, so "u:r:priv_app_nxfile:s0:c512,c768", say, gets left-truncated to "r:priv_app_nxfile:s0:c512,c768". my username is very short and my desktop doesn't use selinux, so forgive the crappy example, but afaict the tradition is to truncate from the right, and indicate that truncation has taken place by replacing the last character with '+': ~$ ps -O user:2 PID USER S TTY TIME COMMAND 18357 e+ S pts/23 00:00:00 -/bin/bash 18422 e+ R pts/23 00:00:00 ps -O user:2 ah, actually it's weirder than that... $ adb shell ps -AZ | grep too u:r:bluetooth:s0 bluetoot 13320 13015 2245220 58420 SyS_epoll_ 6fe4ab06b0 S com.android.bluetooth u:r:wcnss_filter:s0 bluetoot 13631 1 17808 1740 poll_sched 77105ff7e8 S wcnss_filter $ adb shell -t ps -AZ | grep too u:r:bluetooth:s0 luetooth 13320 13015 2245220 58420 epoll_wait 6fe4ab06b0 S com.android.bluetooth u:r:wcnss_filter:s0 luetooth 13631 1 17808 1740 le_timeout 77105ff7e8 S wcnss_filter $ if we're writing to a tty ps calls draw_trim but if not, calls printf directly. so in one case we truncate from the correct side (but don't mark the truncation with '+') and in the other we truncate from the wrong side (and also don't mark the truncation). (/me wishes Unix weren't still so ASCII; the unicode ellipsis '…' would be a nice improvement over '+'.) -- Elliott Hughes - http://who/enh - http://jessies.org/~enh/ Android native code/tools questions? Mail me/drop by/add me as a reviewer. _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list Toybox@lists.landley.net http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
