Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:21:00 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r196254 - head/usr.sbin/iostat Message-ID: <87r5vcc28z.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <9bbcef730908151137h3c752f91j3ec9d93a8f860d66@mail.gmail.com> (Ivan Voras's message of "Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:37:28 %2B0200") References: <200908151757.n7FHvLCa080913@svn.freebsd.org> <9bbcef730908151137h3c752f91j3ec9d93a8f860d66@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 20:37:28 +0200, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> wrote: >2009/8/15 Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>: >> Author: keramida (doc committer) >> Date: Sat Aug 15 17:57:21 2009 >> New Revision: 196254 >> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/196254 >> >> Log: >> =A0iostat: add a bit of space between tty in/out columns >> >> =A0The columns for tty input and output may bump against each other >> =A0if the tty output needs more than 5 columns. =A0Add a bit of space >> =A0that pushes everything 1 column to the right, but also avoids the >> =A0problem. > > I don't know if it would interfere with some use cases (OTOH I don't > know why would someone need tty in/out counts at all) but why not > aggressively humanize the numbers instead? It would probably interfere with scripts that people are using to parse iostat output. Even *this* change that slides everything to the right by one column may cause a bit of surprise, but I see that -H is not taken as an option. I'll try to grab it and add support for human readable numbers, but keep it non-default. Thanks! :)
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