Re: High UID support for Linux

Ragnar Hojland Espinosa (ragnar@redestb.es)
Mon, 23 Nov 1998 11:12:20 +0100 (CET)

On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> > "ps aux" is already there, insofar as it only displays something like 12
> > characters' worth of command. :-)
> Maximize your xterm and try it... You might find a little bit more,
> especially at 1280x1024... :-)

No need for xterms.. a 100x37x87Hz text mode really looks nice, and is as
relaxing as 80x25 (at least once you tweak the mode enough).

Well, since the problem with ps are [gp]ids, how about making it so that
pids only go over 99999 once, say, 24999 pids with number <99999 are used
at the same time, and similar for 999999? I mean, even with 32 bits,
nobody should relay on pids not wrapping around..

(a humble opinion: Right now I don't need don't a 32bit [gpu]id, but I
don't think any of the people who do would like to hear that it's not
being done because it spoils ps formatting.

-- 
____/|  Ragnar Hojland  (ragnar@lightside.ddns.org)      Fingerprint  94C4B
\ o.O|  _______________________________________________  2F0D27DE025BE2302C
 =(_)= | 7 Diciembre, manifestacion contra Telefonica! | 104B78C56 B72F0822
   U   |  No faltes!!  http://www.internautas.org/7D/) | hkp://keys.pgp.com
        -----------------------------------------------






-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/