The lstart field has been converted to use the strftime()
function so that it uses the locale. A new option -D
allows the user to define the format that would want this
field to show.
This may mean the field will be longer than it should be,
especially for French locales and the user defined field,
but the field length can be specified too.
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This commit started off making all the relevant fields use the
locale correctly so it could solve #226 as well. The issue
is there an implied restriction (or not) around
strftime("%b") and probably strftime("%a") for abbrievated month
and day names respectively.
English, and some/most other languages put an additional
restriction that all abbreviations are 3 characters long.
The problem is, not all languages do this.
French is a good example:
janv. févr. mars avril mai juin juil. août sept. oct. nov. déc.
Maybe strip the . at the end?
That helps for some months, not all
Maybe take the first three characters?
Several wide languages will have big issues
Maybe convert wide, get wcslen then use that.
Even after that June "juin" and July "juil" are both "jui".
So, anything that uses the month (bsdstart,start) use ctime which
doesn't use locale. That solves the length issue.
stime does, which means it has this issue but its been like that
for years. You get stuff like this:
janv.13 482261
00:00 1151918
2022 1458628
06:12 1957584
The only way to fix that would be to
a)Make the field two characters longer
b)Convert it back to ctime() which means everyone else
loses.
This could have be oh-so easy if everyone made %b and %a three
(wide) characters everywhere.
References:
procps-ng/procps#228procps-ng/procps#226
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz>
The man page said it cannot show changes to comm, such as when you
use prctl(). In fact, ps can see this. The args field may not change
because its due to the path of the executable but comm can.
The field comm no longer shows defunct for zombie processes, use the
state field for this as it could be obscured if not the last
column anyhow.
Signed-off-by: Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz>
