Edward Tomasz Napierała <[email protected]> writes:

> Patch below changes ps(1) to automatically size column widths according to 
> their
> contents.  From the user point of view, it prevents breaking layout with too 
> wide values
> and in most cases makes output narrower.  From the developer point of view, 
> it removes
> the need to specify widths.  Testing is welcome - the patch shouldn't change 
> ps(1)
> behaviour except slightly changing the widths, but the code changes are 
> pretty large
> and it's quite possible I've missed something.

STAT column seems to be right-aligned when it was previously left-aligned.
This makes sorting it harder, e.g.

  $ ps ax | (IFS=; read h; echo $h; sort -k3) | less
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