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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Is it possible to hide process args from 'ps -ef'?? (Recap)
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.170420.24394@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 25 Apr 91 17:04:20 GMT
References: <7294@auspex.auspex.com> <1991Apr21.174709.27641@NCoast.ORG> <7326@auspex.auspex.com>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA)
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As quoted from <7326@auspex.auspex.com> by guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris):
+---------------
| A quick look at the S5R3.0 "ps" indicates that if the "-l" flag is
| given, the string in the u area is chopped off at 35 characters rather
| than PSARGSZ characters, so a "w" flag might be useful there as well.
+---------------

3.0 is a bit old by now.

The current behavior is that ps only shows the short command name (u_comm)
unless the "-f" option is provided; then it prints out the entire u_psargs
string.

++Brandon
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