From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6104 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2000 08:36:15 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 15 Aug 2000 08:36:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 12520 invoked by alias); 15 Aug 2000 08:35:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 12637 Received: (qmail 12512 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2000 08:35:21 -0000 X-Envelope-Sender-Is: Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru (at relayer goliath.siemens.de) From: "Andrej Borsenkow" To: "Sven Wischnowsky" , Subject: RE: Some problems with menu list. Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 12:35:13 +0400 Message-ID: <000201c00693$bad90d80$21c9ca95@mow.siemens.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-Reply-To: <200008150757.JAA05041@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> Importance: Normal > > Question to everyone: should we remove processes-list, i.e. the second > call to ps? The problem is: how do we replace it. I think it would be > nice if _pids would look at the first line of the output of ps to see > which column gives the pids. If it can't find that out, it uses the > first numeric column (easier to implement: the first number in each > line). For special cases, users should be able to set a style to tell > _pids which column to use. > > Would that be ok for everyone? > Yes. Looking at header should be quite robust. Position of pid varies from system to system, but, hopefully, it is always called PID :-) This would make _pids usable out of the box on almost every system. -andrej