Re: [PATCH] cgroup: print pretty format in /proc/cgroups

[Tejun Heo]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 08:47:45PM +0800, Jianyu Zhan wrote:
> I found that /proc/cgroups printed format has ugly alignment(see below).
> 
> This patch confines every field in fixed-width(16 actually) range.
> Though MAX_CGROUP_TYPE_NAMELEN is 32, but currently no subsystem
> has name width more than 10, so 16 is a moderate width; besides, 16
> figures could accomandate enormous huge number, so no need to worry
> that these fields would clobber each other.

The problem there is that there could be programs / scripts parsing it
assuming single tab between entries.  It surely is ugly but do we
care?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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