Autosizing column widths in ps(1).

[Alexander Best]

On Sun Jul 24 11, Alexander Best wrote:
> On Sun Jul 24 11, Edward Tomasz Napiera?a wrote:
> > Wiadomo?? napisana przez Test Rat w dniu 22 lip 2011, o godz. 19:21:
> > > Edward Tomasz Napiera?a <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.

any reason there are always a minimum of 2 spaces between the "TT" and the
"TIME" column and not a single space?

> 
> working great here. have you experienced any performance issues, due to ps
> having to iterate through all columns before constructing the output in
> comparison to the previous design?
> 
> cheers.
> alex
> 
> P.S.: one utility which would also benefit from auto column sizing is top, for
> sure! ;)
> 
> > 
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