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Originally Posted by knc1
@cubemike99: Lets go with "ps" being internally limited to displaying a single "memory page" worth of command line, rather than the whole thing.
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Yeah, ps just reads /proc/$pid/cmdline, and that is hardwired to display at most one page of output (see fs/proc/base.c
roc_pid_cmdline() in the kernel source). Suboptimal really, but nobody's souped it up to iterate across the full command line yet.