> Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:27:01 -0700
> From: Theo de Raadt <[email protected]>
> 
> > On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 12:50:33AM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote:
> > > Fortunately, help is on the way.  Patch below combines all cpu
> > > states into a single line, for that "classic" top look even on
> > > the most impressive of modern hardware.
> > 
> > Upstream top (and the version e.g. on Linux, NetBSD etc) use "1" for
> > this, both as command line option and key.
> 
> We are incompatible with upstream top on purpose.  It is a pile of festering
> shit.
> 
> Noone says top has to be the same on all systems.  It is non-standard.
> It just has to display things pretty so that a person can watch what a
> machine is doing, without people using lots of stupid buttons.

Being different just to be different is also pretty silly.  So unless
there is a good reason not to choose '1' for this purpose, I'd love to
see a new diff from Ted.

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