Re: evl ps format output issues

Giulio Moro <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi there,
> when running evl ps -st there are some formatting issues that affect its machine-parseability:
>
> - the STAT column often is empty (I know this could be obviated by using `-n`)
> - if PID has 6 digits, then it will touch the ISW column and other columns also seem at risk of overflowing (very much a possibility for CTXSW, SYS and long running programs).
>
> The above issues make it hard to use `/ +/` without manually fixing things up to split evl ps's output.
>
> I suggest the following:
> - reduce the width of all fields (not already starting with whitespace) by 1, prepending each with a space. This ensures that / +/ splitting works.
> - change format_state() so that it always returns a non-empty string
>
> If these changes seem reasonable, I'd be happy to provide a patch.
>

Let's discuss this on a proposed patch directly.

-- 
Philippe.