Package: net-tools Version: 1.60-22 Severity: normal
netstat (in its default output mode) does not adapt properly to terminal width; it always truncates hostnames for an 80-column display even when the terminal settings (`stty size`) and the COLUMNS environment variable are set to a different size. This is a problem for both narrower and wider terminals; for example: Active Internet connections (w/o servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 0 0 metroplex.csail.m:imap2 pool-173-48-166-4:53554 ESTABLISHED (on a terminal that is 141 characters wide) tcp 0 0 foghorn-leghorn.c:54302 postgres-1.c:postgr esql ESTABLISHED (on a terminal that is 63 characters wide) The bug is not sensitive to whether the output is a tty or a pipe. The 4BSD version of netstat(1) suffers from the same bug, although with slightly different choices. The bug was also in etch. The -W flag is a workaround for script input but produces unreadable output. Fix: Most of the columns output by netstat are of fixed length. Only the columns containing hostnames should vary in width. So, if ioctl(TIOCGWINSZ) does not set errno to ENOTTY, or the environment variable COLUMNS is set, the width of the hostname columns should be equal to half of the display width less the total width of the fixed-width columns. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages net-tools depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18lenny2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries net-tools recommends no packages. net-tools 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
