svn commit: r184645 - head/usr.bin/vmstat

[Diomidis Spinellis]

On Nov 4, 2008, at 8:02 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> Author: keramida (doc committer)
> Date: Tue Nov  4 18:02:35 2008
> New Revision: 184645
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/184645
>
> Log:
>   Repeat vmstat header after window.rows instead of a hardcoded 20.
>
>   Use ioctl() to get the window size in vmstat(8), and force a new
>   header to be prepended to the output every time the current window
>   size changes.  Change the number of lines before each header to the
>   current lines of the terminal when the terminal is resized, so that
>   the full terminal length can be used for output lines.
>
>   Inspired by:	svn change 175562 (same feature for iostat)
>   Reviewed by:	ru (who fixed some of my bugs too)

Thanks!  This functionality is generally useful and tricky to code in  
a correct way.  Should we perhaps package it in a library function,  
so that all header-printing commands can benefit from it, without  
repeating the code?

Diomidis Spinellis - dds@