Autosizing column widths in ps(1).

[Edward Tomasz Napierała]

Wiadomość napisana przez Test Rat w dniu 22 lip 2011, o godz. 19:21:
> Edward Tomasz Napierała <trasz at freebsd.org> writes:
> 
>> Patch below changes ps(1) to automatically size column widths according to their
>> contents.  From the user point of view, it prevents breaking layout with too wide values
>> and in most cases makes output narrower.  From the developer point of view, it removes
>> the need to specify widths.  Testing is welcome - the patch shouldn't change ps(1)
>> behaviour except slightly changing the widths, but the code changes are pretty large
>> and it's quite possible I've missed something.
> 
> STAT column seems to be right-aligned when it was previously left-aligned.
> This makes sorting it harder, e.g.
> 
>  $ ps ax | (IFS=; read h; echo $h; sort -k3) | less

Good catch, thanks!  Updated patch, which also fixes two issues affecting TTY column,
is at http://people.freebsd.org/~trasz/ps-9.diff.

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