From: Theo de Raadt Subject: Re: iostat: display all drives To: kirill@korins.ky, mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl Cc: jmc@kerhand.co.uk, tech@openbsd.org Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 17:29:54 -0600 >> Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 14:26:46 +0100 >> From: Kirill A. Korinsky >> >> On Mon, 20 May 2024 13:53:15 +0100, >> Jason McIntyre wrote: >> > >> > i don't know if there's a reason, but if your change goes in, i suggest >> > simply removing the note from the man page, since it hardly seems worth >> > noting if we display them all... >> > >> >> digging shown that it was a part of original import from NetBSD. NetBSD >> replaces that 4 into 3 ~20 years ago [1] which was made depends on terminal >> width [2] which was heavy reworked few years ago [3] > >Right. The default of 4 is almost certainly chosen such that the >default output fits on a standard 80 character terminal line. And >that is still the only reasonable default. So the diff should not go >in. Yes that is the obvious reason. But kids these days.