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Re: [patch] ps.c ps.1 Disregard terminal width when STDOUT is not a tty

Subject: Re: [patch] ps.c ps.1 Disregard terminal width when STDOUT is not a tty (take 2)
From: "Evan Clarke" <evan@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:34:34 UTC
Newsgroups: fa.openbsd.tech

2008/7/22 Ted Unangst <ted.unangst@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On 7/20/08, Evan Clarke <evan@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> You do raise a valid point.  My main reason for the patch is that I
>>  have a couple of scripts that I don't control, that assume the ww on
>>  STDOUT!=tty, and break if it isn't present - I am assuming because the
>>  GNU tools (and maybe others) do this.
>
> I'm kinda curious how it worked out that you are running a script that
> you can't edit.
>

It is a workplace issue - not ideal I know.


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