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Date:      Wed, 20 Jun 2001 08:47:28 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jens Schweikhardt <schweikh@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/vmstat vmstat.c
Message-ID:  <20010620084727.K58585@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <200106191759.f5JHxiF54249@freefall.freebsd.org>; from schweikh@FreeBSD.org on Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:59:43AM -0700
References:  <200106191759.f5JHxiF54249@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Tuesday, 19 June 2001 at 10:59:43 -0700, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
> schweikh    2001/06/19 10:59:43 PDT
>
>   Modified files:
>     usr.bin/vmstat       vmstat.c
>   Log:
>   Made all fields in default output be space separated. Run-together
>   columns confuse the heck out of other apps trying to parse vmstat output
>   (eg sscope).

Excellent!

> I made sure we're still <= 80 cols per line.

Can you be sure of that under all circumstances?

It seems to me that the vmstat format is somewhat obsolete.  Obviously
we need to maintain compatibility for the sake of existing scripts,
but they don't care about 80 character maxima (I hope).  How about
thinking about how to make the output more configurable?  The same
applies to iostat, where it would be nice to be able to specify
specific devices to monitor, rather than just classes of devices.

Greg
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