ps enhencements (posix syntax, and more)

Garance A Drosihn drosih at rpi.edu
Tue Apr 20 23:20:11 PDT 2004


At 7:45 PM -0400 4/20/04, Albert Cahalan wrote:
>
>DYNAMIC FIELD SIZES:
>
>There are different choices here. Some can hurt you.
>
>It is good to produce some output before all the
>process data has been read.

Note that `ps' already sorts all data before printing
out anything.  If it has gotten far enough to sort all
the data, it can probably size it all too.  (I have not
looked at how Cyrille actually did that, but I assume
that at least that much of it is probably okay).

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