Date: Sat, 5 Jul 1997 16:16:38 +0400 (MSD) From: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru> To: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> Cc: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@apfel.de>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: long usernames in top Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970705161359.545A-100000@nagual.pp.ru> In-Reply-To: <199707051134.VAA01367@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
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On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, David Nugent wrote:
> int getmaxnamelen(void)
> {
> int maxnamelen = 8;
> struct passwd *pw;
>
> Use this to determine the maximum name. 8 is an obvious minimum, and
> do this at startup. If larger names are added while top is running,
> well, tough, they get truncated which is no big deal.
Better variant will be to calculate maxnamelen at runtime through
displayed names only, not through all names from /etc/passwd
Otherwise you'll get wide output even if only one long user name present
in your /etc/passwd (even this userid is never really used).
--
Andrey A. Chernov
<ache@null.net>
http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/
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