1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index f6c33dc6..3173d6d4 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -737,12 +737,15 @@ then
         ac_cv_ps_cols=7
         AC_MSG_RESULT([$ac_cv_ps_command - with no RSS])
 
+dnl Solaris 2.6
 elif ps -Ao 's comm vsz rss uid user ppid args' 2>/dev/null | \
         egrep -i ["^S[TAUES]* +C[OMDNA]+ +V[SIZE]+ +RSS +UID +USER +PPID +[RGSCOMDNA]+"] >/dev/null
 then
         ac_cv_ps_varlist="[procstat,&procuid,&procppid,&procvsz,&procrss,&procpcpu,procprog,&pos]"
         ac_cv_ps_command="$PATH_TO_PS -Ao 's uid ppid vsz rss pcpu comm args'"
-        ac_cv_ps_format="%s %d %d %d %d %f %s %n"
+        # There must be no space between the %s and %n due to a wierd problem in sscanf where
+        # it will return %n as longer than the line length
+        ac_cv_ps_format="%s %d %d %d %d %f %s%n"
         ac_cv_ps_cols=8
         AC_MSG_RESULT([$ac_cv_ps_command])