Package: postgresql-8.4 Version: 8.4.7-1 Severity: minor The altered command line text, as kept in /proc/#/cmdline, is patched by a large number of NUL characters for each of the spawned processes: writer, wal-writer, autovacuum launcher, and stats collector. A typical case is this:
$ hexdump -C /proc/2324/cmdline 00000000 70 6f 73 74 67 72 65 73 3a 20 77 72 69 74 65 72 |postgres: writer| 00000010 20 70 72 6f 63 65 73 73 20 20 20 00 00 00 00 00 | process .....| 00000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| * 00000070 The master process is correctly ending after a single NUL character. Presently, the rewritten commandlines will produce irritating artifacts even when issuing $ ps ax | grep postgres Could the strings be shortened at creation time? Best regards, Mats Erik Andersson, DM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
