Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2018 14:45:55 -0500 From: "Garance A Drosehn" <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Mike Karels" <mike@karels.net> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ps output line length change Message-ID: <2280A28D-A54B-417B-B72D-38EE2F4EE521@rpi.edu> In-Reply-To: <201802170046.w1H0kvxN032252@mail.karels.net> References: <201802170046.w1H0kvxN032252@mail.karels.net>
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On 16 Feb 2018, at 19:46, Mike Karels wrote: > A couple of weeks ago, I sent email on the committers list proposing > reversion of r314685 changing the output line length for ps. In > particular, it uses unlimited line length if stdout is not a tty. > The previous code used the tty width if any of stdout, stderr, or > stdin was a tty. The change in r314685 has not been shipped in > any release yet. > > The responses to that email all agreed with reversion. However, > there has been some additional discussion in private email. > Therefore, I am sending this to arch@. I've lost track of how many times I've said this, but I'll say it one more: I think the change should be reverted. What the code currently does is fine, and is flexible enough. I've written many scripts which parse the output of 'ps', and the historical behavior has never hampered me. And I do write scripts which have to run on multiple unixes (in fact, most of my work is done on systems which are not running FreeBSD). -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = drosih@rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA
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