Dan, > > > Indeed my copy of the man page says to use "ps -o" if you want longer > > > zone names. > > > > Which was the result of one of the bug reports I mentioned > > initially. If you're going to have to do that, why have the -Z > > flag at all? > > I'm not sure why this was done this way. I'll go see if I can track > down someone who might know the rationale. > > That said, it seems silly to me too. I'd be happy to work with you > /sponsor for you a fix if we can understand what exactly the constraints > are.
OK, I've seen Andy's reply in the pgrep thread, so basically I believe we should just print out the whole zone name. In other words, %8.8s becomes %8s, and if it's short it will line up like it does at the moment. If it's long, it will be ugly but accurate. I should also fix the zone header so that everything will line up properly if the zone names are short enough. Which then leads to the question: how should the ZONE header line up? At the moment it's in the middle of its column with 2 spaces either side - which seems odd given that most headers are right-justified. I'm tempted to push this to the right as well. And should the username truncation problem be addressed as well? (And if so, done as part of this or separately?) I presume this is the web page mentioned earlier: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/security/library/long_usernames/ -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
