On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 09:48:32PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
>
> Hi Benno,
>
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:21:58AM +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > Currently the output of 'ipcs -m' is slightly misaligned:
> >
> > ------ Shared Memory Segments --------
> > key shmid owner perms bytes nattch status
> > 0x00000000 131072 ben 600 196608 2 dest
> > 0x00000000 98305 ben 600 393216 2 dest
> >
> > The first patch (to follow) fixes that by adding a space before the
> > perms data column. It also correctly aligns the output of 'ipcs -mt'
> > by removing a leading space from the "attached" column.
Applied.
> >
> > (I'm unsure though whether the second hunk is correct, and whether the
> > field widening in the third hunk is needed and correct.)
>
> it would be better to fix the headers alignment than touch the data.
> It's possible that people use ipcs in their scripts and we shouldn't
> change the positions of the data columns.
Well, I've found that the output of "ipcs -m -t" is useless on
terminal with 80 columns. It's stupid bug.
We need to describe this change in ReleseNotes.
Thanks,
Karel
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