From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 24 10:40:11 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA11450 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 10:40:11 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA11444 for ; Mon, 24 Apr 1995 10:40:09 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA14857; Mon, 24 Apr 95 11:33:15 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9504241733.AA14857@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: More devfs stuff To: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Date: Mon, 24 Apr 95 11:33:14 MDT Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504230834.DAA09371@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Apr 23, 95 03:34:17 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > On the other hand, there are many reporting tools (ps, etc.) that > > have a limit on the number of tty type devices based on a interface > > identifier character and one or two instance identifiers (for ps this > > is one). > > What tools other than PS have this field-overflow type of problem? It's > the only one that ever gets brought up. If it's really the only thing > standing in the way of sensible device naming then it's time to change > the output format. It's time to change it for ps, who, rwho, rwhod, w, last, finger, and the accounting reporting programs. Sorry, but I don't believe this list to be exhaustive. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.