From owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 20 23:20:11 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8991016A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 23:20:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp0.server.rpi.edu (smtp0.server.rpi.edu [128.113.53.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26E3443D5E for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 23:20:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp0.server.rpi.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i3L6K3Ed015915; Wed, 21 Apr 2004 02:20:03 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <1082504719.3444.534.camel@cube> References: <019601c426b0$77dc91a0$7890a8c0@dyndns.org> <1082504719.3444.534.camel@cube> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 02:20:01 -0400 To: Albert Cahalan From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ps enhencements (posix syntax, and more) X-BeenThere: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Standards compliance List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 06:20:11 -0000 At 7:45 PM -0400 4/20/04, Albert Cahalan wrote: > >DYNAMIC FIELD SIZES: > >There are different choices here. Some can hurt you. > >It is good to produce some output before all the >process data has been read. Note that `ps' already sorts all data before printing out anything. If it has gotten far enough to sort all the data, it can probably size it all too. (I have not looked at how Cyrille actually did that, but I assume that at least that much of it is probably okay). -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu