From: "Theo de Raadt" <deraadt@openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: firefox compat for ps
To: "Ted Unangst" <tedu@tedunangst.com>
Cc: "Job Snijders" <job@openbsd.org>, tech@openbsd.org
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:38:34 -0600

Ted Unangst <tedu@tedunangst.com> wrote:

> On 2025-03-23, Job Snijders wrote:
> > Did you consider cranking it up to 7 digits (to better accommodate
> > chubby instances of for example chromium, mount_mfs, and mutt)?
> 
> I think a better fix is to dynamically size some columns, but this
> is a bit more involved giving the way the printing code works. Will
> think about it for a bit.

That could get a bit dangerous.

There are people who unwisely break column data from ps, by not using
awk or similar.

Probably OK for earlier columns.