From owner-cvs-usrbin Mon Jul 14 12:36:31 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA09798 for cvs-usrbin-outgoing; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 12:36:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lsd.relcom.eu.net (lsd.relcom.eu.net [193.124.23.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA09668; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 12:34:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ache@localhost) by lsd.relcom.eu.net (8.8.6/8.8.5) id XAA08090; Mon, 14 Jul 1997 23:34:31 +0400 (MSD) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 23:34:31 +0400 (MSD) From: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= X-Sender: ache@lsd.relcom.eu.net To: Adam David cc: peter@spinner.dialix.com.au, peter@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-usrbin@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/top machine.c In-Reply-To: <199707141844.SAA21921@ubiq.veda.is> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-usrbin@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 14 Jul 1997, Adam David wrote: > > > > > 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? Why config file is ever needed? True dynamic behaviour (not at startup only but each time displayed) will be enough. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/