Re: ps buffer is incorrectly padded on the (latest) OS X - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: ps buffer is incorrectly padded on the (latest) OS X
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Msg-id 27588.1283540427@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to ps buffer is incorrectly padded on the (latest) OS X  (Alexey Klyukin <alexk@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: ps buffer is incorrectly padded on the (latest) OS X  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Alexey Klyukin <alexk@commandprompt.com> writes:
> I always wondered why ps ax|grep postgres shows several extra blank lines
> after the process name, i.e.

AFAIR it's always done that on OSX.  I thought we'd tried the '\0'
padding way back when and it didn't work nicely, but maybe Apple fixed
that.
        regards, tom lane


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