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Date:      Tue, 29 Apr 1997 16:32:16 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        phk@dk.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Cc:        jkh@freefall.FreeBSD.ORG, CVS-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-bin@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ps extern.h keyword.c print.c ps.c ps.h
Message-ID:  <199704290702.QAA20558@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <1423.862296369@critter> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Apr 29, 97 08:46:09 am"

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Poul-Henning Kamp stands accused of saying:
> >
> >  Modified:    bin/ps    extern.h keyword.c print.c ps.c ps.h
> >  Log:
> >  Dynamically adjust size of displayed username to the longest username which
> >  appears, not the longest _maximum_ username (this should probably also go
> >  into 2.2, for the day when we bump up the username length there too).
> 
> This may break some scripts...

Any script broken by this change deserves it.  Parsing
whitespace-separated fields is trivial to do right, and whilst on the
face of it your point is worthwhile, IMHO there is no difference in
substance between this and the decision to unmap page 0.

> Poul-Henning Kamp           | phk@FreeBSD.ORG       FreeBSD Core-team.

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