Randy McMurchy wrote:
Jeremy Huntwork wrote these words on 04/21/05 07:23 CST:
I'm just curious what causes this, whether it's a 2.6.x issue or a ps issue.
Belgarath which runs a 2.4 kernel and procps 3.1.8 doesn't seem to have
this problem. My username is longer than 8 characters and it
Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Randy McMurchy wrote:
The kernel version has nothing to do with the display of usernames. It
doesn't even know about usernames--only uids and gids. It has to be in
the ls/ps code.
That makes sense. Might shadow have an effect on this as well?
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
I just did an experiment. I created a user 'averylongname' and ps does
indeed change this to a number, but ls -l adjusts the column width to
accomodate the long name. Investigating...
Investiation complete. The following comment is in the procps source at
line 1018 of
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Investiation complete. The following comment is in the procps source at
line 1018 of ps/output.c:
// The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6 (IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004
Edition)
// requires that user and group names print as decimal numbers if there is
// not enough room in the
