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bug#7157: df should default to -P if output is not a tty
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Alain Knaff |
Subject: |
bug#7157: df should default to -P if output is not a tty |
Date: |
Mon, 04 Oct 2010 17:10:47 +0200 |
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On 04/10/10 17:06, Eric Blake wrote:
> [please keep the list in the loop]
>
> On 10/04/2010 08:54 AM, Alain Knaff wrote:
>>> One thing that might be possible, however, is to improve df output to
>>> adjust column alignment if $COLUMNS
>>
>> Rather than using $COLUMNS (which is not set by all shells...), it might
>> be preferable to do an ioctl(1, TIOCGWINSZ, ...) instead. Indeed, the
>> ioctl returns the window size as it is now (even if it has been resized).
>> That is what ls does, in any case.
>
> Yep, for consistency among coreutils, the ioctl approach is definitely best.
... and interestingly enough, the ioctl has the "advantage" of telling
us whether the output is indeed a tty or not (it fails with EINVAL if it
is not). AFAIU, this is how ls does the trick of finding out whether
stdout is a tty or not. In a way, a non-tty could be considered
equivalent to an infinetly wide window.
>
>>
>>> is not set (or is set to something
>>> large), so as to avoid breaking lines in the case where the output is
>>> usable in a long-line context. But this still doesn't help the case
>>> that logwatch should have been using -P in the first place.
>>>
>>
>> Agreed. I now also reported the problem to Kirk Bauer from logwatch.
>
> Glad to hear it.
>
Regards,
Alain