From owner-cvs-usrbin Mon Jul 14 11:44:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA07231 for cvs-usrbin-outgoing; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 11:44:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from veda.is (veda.is [193.4.230.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA07192; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 11:44:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ubiq.veda.is (ubiq.veda.is [193.4.230.60]) by veda.is (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA18303; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 18:44:19 GMT From: Adam David Received: (from adam@localhost) by ubiq.veda.is (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA21921; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 18:44:16 GMT Message-Id: <199707141844.SAA21921@ubiq.veda.is> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/top machine.c In-Reply-To: from "[______ ______]" at "Jul 14, 97 09:32:07 pm" To: ache@nagual.pp.ru (=?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?=) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 18:44:14 +0000 (GMT) Cc: peter@spinner.dialix.com.au, peter@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-usrbin@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-usrbin@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > It's not ideal but (I think) better than it was before. The width is > > > > limited to within 8..16. > > Please back it out. We don't need hacks. If you try to improve situation, > please implement run-time scanning through active names to be displayed > (not at startup only, but each time) to compute max one. The only other sane alternative seems to be a config file, where the field length is specified. Once a config file is there of course, it could specify dynamic behaviour or (old) fixed length. But which behaviour should be the default? -- Adam David