svn commit: r225868 - head/bin/ps

[Alexander Best]

On Fri Sep 30 11, Edward Tomasz Napiera?a wrote:
> Wiadomo?? napisana przez Alexander Best w dniu 29 wrz 2011, o godz. 20:57:
> > On Thu Sep 29 11, Edward Tomasz Napiera?a wrote:
> >> Wiadomo?? napisana przez Alexander Best w dniu 29 wrz 2011, o godz. 14:14:
> >>> On Thu Sep 29 11, Edward Tomasz Napierala wrote:
> >>>> Author: trasz
> >>>> Date: Thu Sep 29 06:31:42 2011
> >>>> New Revision: 225868
> >>>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/225868
> >>>> 
> >>>> Log:
> >>>> Make ps(1) automatically size its column widths.
> >>> 
> >>> cool to see this committed. :)
> >>> 
> >>> i think i wrote you about the two spaces between the "TT" and "TIME" field
> >>> some time ago. you said that the "TT" entry can contain a postfix "-". can
> >>> you describe a situation, where this can occur? i've never seen the "TT" field
> >>> contain an entry larger than 2 chars.
> >> 
> >> Login via ssh, run "nohup sleep 1000 &", then logout.
> > 
> > maybe it would also be possible to introduce unit symbols for the "vsz" and
> > "rss" fields. they are getting really huge on systems with a long uptime
> > (*cough* mem leaks) and kilobyte granularity isn't really that great when
> > those fields are nearing 1GB.
> 
> I thought about it, but the "-h" option is already taken.

maybe making unit symbols the default behavior and introducing a -k flag, which
toggles between the unit symbol mode and the traditional kilobyte mode?

we could then add an envar $PS, so users can set PS=-k to restore the historic
ps(1) behavior. a note to the BUGS section could then be added, similar to the
note in top(1)'s BUGS section regarding the -I flag, which explains that
ps(1)es semantics were changed, but can be restored via PS=-k.

cheers.
alex

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