From: Mike Larkin <mlarkin@nested.page>
Subject: Re: firefox compat for ps
To: Ted Unangst <tedu@tedunangst.com>, Job Snijders <job@openbsd.org>, tech@openbsd.org
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 04:01:13 +0000

On Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 05:30:21PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2025/03/24 18:00, Ted Unangst wrote:
> > On 2025-03-23, Ted Unangst 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)?
>
> how on earth do you get mutt to 7 digits?!
>
> mount_mfs, clamd, mariadb, squid, and many java-based programs can
> easily get there though.
>

so can VMs

> > > 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.
> >
> > So I'm not wedded to this idea, but if the terminal is wider, we can
> > make a few adjustments. You want to see big processes, you need to buy
> > a bigger monitor.
>
> an additional 1 or 2 columns if the conditions are right would certainly
> give cleaner output on many systems.
>
> >
> > Index: ps.c
> > ===================================================================
> > RCS file: /cvs/src/bin/ps/ps.c,v
> > diff -u -p -r1.81 ps.c
> > --- ps.c	18 May 2024 13:08:09 -0000	1.81
> > +++ ps.c	24 Mar 2025 21:57:20 -0000
> > @@ -412,6 +412,9 @@ scanvars(void)
> >
> >  	for (vent = vhead; vent; vent = vent->next) {
> >  		v = vent->var;
> > +		if (termwidth >= 84 && (strcmp(v->name, "rss") == 0 ||
> > +		    strcmp(v->name, "vsz") == 0))
> > +			v->width += 2;
> >  		i = strlen(v->header);
> >  		if (v->width < i)
> >  			v->width = i;
> >
>