[Xymon] Bug? procs test going red green every hour

[John Horne]

On Fri, 2024-03-22 at 13:04 +0000, John Horne wrote:
> On Fri, 2024-03-22 at 10:10 +1100, Jeremy Laidman wrote:
> > This seems to be an artefact of the "xymon" command, perhaps sanitising
> > input.
> >
> I would agree.
>
>
Interestingly in the source lib/stackio.c (line 58) is the input comment:

=====
 * Simultaneously, lines ending with a '\' character are
 * merged into one line, allowing for transparent handling
 * of very long lines.
=====

Unfortunately I've got to leave work in a minute, but I would say this could be
where the lines are merged. The comment comes from the 'unlimfgets' routine,
which is used by the xymon command (common/xymon.c) to read input.


John.

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