Package: libproc-processtable-perl
Version: 0.45-1
Severity: normal
Whilst setting up mon (monitoring system) with the ps.monitor script
which uses Proc::ProcessTable to get a list of the processes on the
system, I discovered that processes with very long names are being
truncated, thus causing a false alert in mon.
Debugging the relevant part of the ps.monitor script --
use Proc::ProcessTable;
my $process_table = new Proc::ProcessTable('cache_ttys' => 0 );
foreach $process ( @{$process_table->table} )
{
printf ("Examining ->%s<-\n", $process->cmndline);
printf ("+++ Checking if ->%s<- is required\n\n", $process->fname);
}
reveals that process name in fname is truncated at 15 characters
Examining ->transmission-daemon<-
+++ Checking if ->transmission-da<- is required
Thus it is evident that the width of fname should be increased
from 16 to 24 if possible.
Obviously in its current form, checking of process names greater
than 15 characters will lead to false alarms in mon, and problems
in other packages which use this functionality.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: armel (armv5tel)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-kirkwood
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages libproc-processtable-perl depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.4-6 GCC support library
ii perl 5.10.1-13 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii perl-base [perlapi-5.10.0] 5.10.1-13 minimal Perl system
libproc-processtable-perl recommends no packages.
libproc-processtable-perl suggests no packages.
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