On 2009/07/19 21:17, Jason McIntyre wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 08:55:52PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > systat's default was changed to display names numerically, > > Can says this was to avoid excessive blocking with the default > > displays. However this left behind an ineffective -n flag and > > no way to show names from the command-line (though there is > > a yet-to-be-documented keyboard command to toggle this, 'n'). > > > > This diff adds -N to show names (keeping -n as is, it didn't > > seem right to make -n behave oppositely from netstat). > > > > ok? > > > > this seems like jumping through hoops. > > we have a fair few apps (route,arp,netstat) that have -n to disable the > lookup. systat has it too, but now it;s on by default. your solution > means we have one extra option (-N), plus a useless option (-n).
it's been on by default for a little over a year (main.c r1.38), that part isn't new. > isn;t the "solution" that you set an alias if you want -n by default? or > should we do this for all apps with -n? > > anyway, if it goes ahead, one comment below: > > N before n. thanks :)
