https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=246514
Bug ID: 246514
Summary: w(1) truncates output before passing to libxo
Product: Base System
Version: Unspecified
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Some People
Priority: ---
Component: bin
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
When calling w(1) as
w --libxo=json
or any other output format, values - particularly the WHAT column - gets
truncated by the terminal size at the time of invocation. This is particularly
troublesome when called in a non-terminal session e.g. from cron(8), as it will
then default to 79 characters.
It could be argued that unless the output is a terminal, it should not make any
assumptions about or adaptations to terminal size at all. For example, w|head
should not truncate. However, changing this behaviour might be a violation of
the POLA.
Truncating output prior to passing to libxo shoul, however, probably be
considered a bug.
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