Package: psmisc Version: 22.20-1 Severity: normal The Single Unix Specification says that the COLUMNS environment variable 'shall represent a decimal integer >0 used to indicate the user's preferred width in column positions for the terminal screen or window; see Column Position. If this variable is unset or null, the implementation determines the number of columns, appropriate for the terminal or window, in an unspecified manner. When COLUMNS is set, any terminal-width information implied by TERM is overridden.'
pstree ignores this, and only supports the -l option to enable arbitrary long lines (and I always have to look this up). I think the current predecence rules are: 1. If -l was used, unlimited. 2. If stdout is a tty and its width can be determined, the tty width. 3. Finally, fallback to 132. An additional rule is required: 1.5. If COLUMNS is set and valid, the specified width. Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: amd64 Kernel: Linux 3.9-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages psmisc depends on: ii libc6 2.17-7 ii libtinfo5 5.9+20130608-1 psmisc recommends no packages. psmisc suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
