On 10/13/2011 11:02 AM, Jon Clugston wrote:
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Jon Clugston<jon.clugs...@gmail.com> wrote:
Greetings,
When I run "procps -ef" I get corrupted command line parameters:
jc807j@~>procps -ef
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
jc807j 5852 1 0 08:59 tty0 00:00:03 X :0 -multiwindow
jc807j 2668 1 0 08:59 tty0 00:00:00 xterm -e ssh server
80x72+285+0 -e ssh server
jc807j 3004 1 0 08:59 tty0 00:00:00 xterm -e ssh server
80x72-8+0 -e ssh server
jc807j 3392 3004 0 08:59 tty0 00:00:00 ssh server
jc807j 5960 2668 0 08:59 tty1 00:00:00 ssh server
jc807j 2928 5852 0 09:12 ? 00:00:00 xterm 20000 +tb
jc807j 4608 2928 0 09:12 tty2 00:00:00 bash
jc807j 5800 4608 1 10:57 tty2 00:00:00 procps -ef
The actual command lines for the 3 xterm processes are:
C:\cygwin\bin\xterm.exe -sl 20000 +tb -geometry 80x72+285+0 -e ssh server
C:\cygwin\bin\xterm.exe -sl 20000 +tb -geometry 80x72-8+0 -e ssh server
C:\cygwin\bin\xterm.exe -sl 20000 +tb
as reported by the "listdlls" tool.
I have verified that the "/proc/*/cmdline" is the source of the
corrupted information. "cmdline" from PID 2928 is:
jc807j@~>od -c /proc/2928/cmdline
0000000 x t e r m \0 \0 2 0 0 0 0 \0 + t b
0000020 \0
0000021
I am able to reproduce the problem by simply executing the following
command line:
xterm -sl 20000 +tb -geometry 80x72+285+0 -e ssh server
(obviously w/ X running). I wrote a simple shell script which does
nothing except sleep and I called it with the same command line
parameters and it didn't have the problem. So, it appears that the
problem is related to "xterm" or something that "xterm" does.
I also shortened/simplified the command line (to "xterm") and it was
still corrupted (the "-sl" was missing):
xterm -sl 20000 +tb -geometry 80x72+285+0
I tried to reproduce by creating long command lines to other commands
and none were corrupted.
Does "xterm" step on its command line?
While not an answer to your question, why not just put the following in
your ~/.Xdefaults:
serverTerm*saveLines: 20000
serverTerm*toolBar: false
serverTerm*geometry: 80x72+285+0
and invoke xterm with:
$ xterm -name serverTerm -e ssh server
and be done with it?
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