[Gllug] ps width on Solaris

[Nix]

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Tethys mused:
> 
> Steve Cobrin writes:
> 
>>Solaris's "ps" supports the ability to define what column you want to 
>>see displayed, so you don't have to see unecessary columns, which might 
>>allow you to see the complete text of interest. Use the -o flag, 
>>consult the man pages for more info.
> 
> Nope, I already tried that. But the man page claims that Solaris
> always truncates the args field at 80 characters :-(

That may well be a kernel restriction :( the args field is stored by
the kernel, after all (and while it can be changed, the change is
not guaranteed to survive into the ps output untruncated).

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