Bug 102450
| Summary: | watch -d reports spurious changes | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Kasper Dupont <bugzilla> |
| Component: | procps | Assignee: | Daniel Walsh <dwalsh> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 9 | ||
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-02-11 13:35:01 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Nice email address. ;o) Mass reassign to new owner Fixed in 3.1.15. |
Description of problem: The watch command can show the output from a program periodically. The -d option is intended to highlight changes. In some cases chars are highlighted eventhough they have not changed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): procps-2.0.11-6 How reproducible: Happens every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. watch -d head /proc/sys/kernel/random/* Actual results: Parts of the first filename is highlighted. Expected results: Only the changing file contents should be highlighted. Additional info: The problem seems to be related to the length of the command line.