Remember that NUL is the word separator in process command lines. (Apply "hexdump -C /proc/23456/cmdline".)
Netstat is conceived to print the command name, not the title, thus displaying a single string of __printable__ characters. Technical disection if the source code will reveal a call to strrchr() inside netstat.c/prg_cache_load(), which will stop looking further than the first NUL character, and which in fact appear soon enough. Something like the difference reproduced below, would indeed produce what the bug reporter desires, but I see very little reason to commend such a change. It discloses too much info for the general process. --- netstat.c.debian +++ netstat.c @@ -405,6 +405,7 @@ static void prg_cache_load(void) continue; if (!cmdlp) { + int j; if (procfdlen - PATH_FD_SUFFl + PATH_CMDLINEl >= sizeof(line) - 5) continue; @@ -419,6 +420,9 @@ static void prg_cache_load(void) continue; if (cmdllen < sizeof(cmdlbuf) - 1) cmdlbuf[cmdllen]='\0'; + for (j = 0; j < cmdllen; ++j) + if (cmdlbuf[j] == '\0') + cmdlbuf[j] = ' '; if ((cmdlp = strrchr(cmdlbuf, '/'))) cmdlp++; else -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org