Ping.
On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 06:17:53PM GMT, Raf Czlonka wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 01, 2018 at 08:56:18AM GMT, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > > Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2018 07:49:54 +0100 (CET)
> > > From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kette...@xs4all.nl>
> > >
> > > > Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2018 04:20:35 +0000
> > > > From: Raf Czlonka <rczlo...@gmail.com>
> > > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > With the recent rtld -> ld.so name change in the 1.100 revision[0],
> > > > said objtypename has been increased by one character, thus causing
> > > > everything past the 'Type' column to become mis-aligned, i.e.:
> > > >
> > > > $ ldd /usr/bin/ldd
> > > >
> > > > /usr/bin/ldd:
> > > > Start End Type Open Ref GrpRef Name
> > > > 0000105b67100000 0000105b67303000 exe 1 0 0
> > > > /usr/bin/ldd
> > > > 0000105d9e966000 0000105d9ec46000 rlib 0 1 0
> > > > /usr/lib/libc.so.92.2
> > > > 0000105dca300000 0000105dca300000 ld.so 0 1 0
> > > > /usr/libexec/ld.so
> > > >
> > > > How about simply changing the ld.so five-character name to ldso
> > > > four-character one and keep current column alignment?
> > > >
> > > > Alternatively, expand the 'Type' column and all remaining objtypenames
> > > > by one character (mostly space) in order to fix the alignment.
> > > >
> > > > I'm only including the diff for the latter as doing the former is
> > > > trivial - I still prefer the former solution, BTW.
> > > >
> > > > While there, how about dropping the leading tab character so that
> > > > majority of the outputs generated fit within 80 columns?
> > >
> > > I'd prefer to simply revert the change. It serves no purpose other
> > > than to eat another column. And if there is any doubt this is ld.so,
> > > the full name is printed next to it on the same line!
> >
> > Or we could change it to "ldso" instead.
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> Yes, please - as per above, and quoting myself from a private email,
> this would have been my preferred solution as removing a single
> character - the dot (.) - is simply the least amount of effort to
> fix the alignment while still maintaining the ldso objtypename
> unambiguously clear and descriptive.
>
> Additionally, the 'Type' column header would look better separated
> from the other headers - bar Start and End - by a single space.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Raf
