Parenthesized arguments in a "ps" list

Archie Lachner archiel at teklds.UUCP
Thu Dec 1 03:41:50 AEST 1983


I am told that if the total length of the environment, i.e., the combined
lengths of ALL the environment variables, is greater than 1K bytes, then
ps gives command names in parentheses rather than command line images.
By removing the EXINIT environment variable, the environment is probably
reduced to a level below this threshold.  I suggest trying the following
to check this out in particular cases:

	printenv | wc -c

If the result is more than 1K, then the above explaination applies.



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