Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>> All the other non filename fields in the pfiles(1) output
>> are on a different line to the filename. So I'd highly recommend
>> that offset go on the same line as mode: or on its own line.
>> If that is done then an offset of 0 should be printed for
>> things that are seekable.
>
> If you put it on the same line as the mode:, then you wind up having to
> line wrap. This makes the content less usable for *human* consumers.
But putting offset: on the filename line will make that wrap quicker
too, especially for pfiles run on an editor running against an deep file
tree eg:
5: S_IFREG mode:0644 dev:182,65547 ino:377482 uid:101 gid:10 size:16384
O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL
/builds/onnv-bugfixes/usr/src/cmd/cmd-crypto/elfsign/.elfsign.c.swp
Thats a vim process editing a file not that deep in ON.
> It seems like folks writing *software* should probably not be consuming
> pfiles output, but possibly using procfs directly.
Indeed but that should imply we deliberately make the output worse
than it is just now, so putting offset on a new line by its own would
be my preference.
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Darren J Moffat
