Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 10:16:46 +0100 From: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@felyko.com>, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>, Jack F Vogel <jfv@freebsd.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r266423 - in head/sys: conf dev/i40e modules/i40e Message-ID: <EE79B142-1D9E-4903-8295-ED37CD9024D4@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20140520171613.GM50679@FreeBSD.org> References: <201405190121.s4J1L3qA068339@svn.freebsd.org> <53796149.8060000@freebsd.org> <AF83F052-00D1-40E1-A427-58EDE0853D42@felyko.com> <20140520223516.R2836@besplex.bde.org> <20140520171613.GM50679@FreeBSD.org>
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On 20 May 2014, at 18:16, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Would be cool if most of tools (netstat, systat, etc...) could > determine size of terminal and dynamically widen all their fields. > Thus, tool can run w/o any abbreviations when run in a script mode, > run abbreviated on a small terminal, and run verbose on a wide > terminal. >=20 > This sounds like a generic library providing a special version > of printf(3), which specifies minimal and maximum sizes for fields > and when extra terminal width is available it distributes this > width evenly between all fields. Name it 'elastic printf'. > Sounds like a nice Google SoC project. Or might be that such > library already exists. We have a summer of code project to teach (some of) these tools to = produce a structured, machine-readable, output and write a few generic = tools for processing them. This should make it a lot easier to produce = simple tools that can fit the information that you actually want into a = terminal (or send HTML to netcat, or whatever). David
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