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Date:      Sun, 06 Jul 1997 03:27:28 +1000
From:      David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
To:        =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
Cc:        Wolfram Schneider <wosch@apfel.de>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: long usernames in top 
Message-ID:  <199707051727.DAA03838@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 05 Jul 1997 16:16:38 %2B0400." <Pine.BSF.3.96.970705161359.545A-100000@nagual.pp.ru> 

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>  > Use this to determine the maximum name. 8 is an obvious minimum, and
>  > do this at startup. If larger names are added while top is running,
>  > well, tough, they get truncated which is no big deal.
>  
>  Better variant will be to calculate maxnamelen at runtime through
>  displayed names only, not through all names from /etc/passwd

Very true. Does top use pwcache? (I guess not since top is written for
os's that don't have it, but you never know :)).

>  Otherwise you'll get wide output even if only one long user name present
>  in your /etc/passwd (even this userid is never really used).

Yes.

Regards,
David

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