Hi Craig,
For a long time I wished there was an easy way to support the expansion
of fields. In newlib, top currently displays 76 fields with a maximum
of of 86 under the current design (ok, 94 if remaining printable
characters are used).
As a means of exploring stuff, locally I maintain a branch with many
extra top fields which the public version never sees. As such I bump up
against these internal limitations.
I finally came up with a solution that provides top with essentially an
unlimited capacity for new fields. And patch #0004 shows how easy it is
to expand beyond my current provision of 100.
Under this new design I almost gave up on supporting older rcfiles. But
I eventually overcame all obstacles. Prior configuration files are
seamlessly supported (even back to a 20+ year old 3.2.8 version).
In addition to the newlib patches, I've also included some master branch
catch-up patches. I only implemented ones that don't impact libproc.
Thanks in advance for the pushes.
Regards,
Jim
p.s. any estimate on when newlib might be born?
