Change Details

The current header formatting is a giant format string that - changes global state during the format process - selects one of 4 different format strings and then does further conditional logic on them - for one value uses an argument, for others, uses global variables. - makes it hard to understand what the header will actually look like. Change name length to 8 while here to avoid wasting space. Change this to build up the header and return it. This is also a pre-req to implementing TOPCOLOR from newer versions of top(1)

The current header formatting is a giant format string that - changes global state during the format process - selects one of 4 different format strings and then does further conditional logic on them - for one value uses an argument, for others, uses global variables. - makes it hard to understand what the header will actually look like. Change name length to 8 while here to avoid wasting space. Change this to build up the header and return it. This is also a pre-req to implementing TOPCOLOR from newer versions of top(1)

The current header formatting is a giant format string that - changes global state during the format process - selects one of 4 different format strings and then does further conditional logic on them - for one value uses an argument, for others, uses global variables. - makes it hard to understand what the header will actually look like. Change name length to 8 while here to avoid wasting space. Change this to build up the header and return it. This is also a pre-req to implementing TOPCOLOR from newer versions of top(1)