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 :)

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