Bug 102450 - watch -d reports spurious changes
Summary: watch -d reports spurious changes
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: procps
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Daniel Walsh
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-08-15 09:46 UTC by Kasper Dupont
Modified: 2005-10-31 22:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-02-11 13:35:01 UTC
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Description Kasper Dupont 2003-08-15 09:46:06 UTC
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.

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2003-08-18 07:42:13 UTC
Nice email address. ;o)

Comment 2 Alexander Larsson 2004-02-05 10:44:24 UTC
Mass reassign to new owner

Comment 3 Daniel Walsh 2004-02-11 13:35:01 UTC
Fixed in 3.1.15.


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