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| author | Karel Zak | 2016-01-07 17:29:11 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2016-01-07 17:36:44 +0100 |
| commit | 19981b07d97667686135b491162d241a93ad3f75 (patch) | |
| tree | 92f36427610a817cc421a5961d2bbbca874e4714 /libsmartcols/src/table.c | |
| parent | hwclock: change audit message (diff) | |
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libsmartcols: make output buffer size estimation more robust and elegant
Reported-by: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
Signed-off-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'libsmartcols/src/table.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | libsmartcols/src/table.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libsmartcols/src/table.c b/libsmartcols/src/table.c index a9beab122..cb4cfae0d 100644 --- a/libsmartcols/src/table.c +++ b/libsmartcols/src/table.c @@ -362,7 +362,11 @@ FILE *scols_table_get_stream(struct libscols_table *tb) * @tb: table * @reduce: width * - * Reduce the output width to @reduce. + * If necessary then libsmartcols use all terminal width, the @reduce setting + * provides extra space (for example for borders in ncurses applications). + * + * The @reduce must be smaller than terminal width, otherwise it's sillently + * ignored. The reduction is not applied when STDOUT_FILENO is not terminal. * * Returns: 0, a negative value in case of an error. */ |