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Date: Sun, 06 Jul 1997 03:27:28 +1000
From: David Nugent <davidn@labs.usn.blaze.net.au>
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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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