ps and username size

[Tito]

On Thursday 10 January 2008 23:22:52 Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Tito wrote:
> 
> > OTOH it doesn't solve the problem of a possible ambiguity
> > between username and uid as names composed only of digits
> > are legal.
> 
> What I meant was: either (default) truncated usernames _or_ special option
> to show _only_ uids.  That should surely solve the ambiguity problem.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 

Hi,
just to be clear what i meant was:

default: print usernames, instead of truncated usernames use id=XXX 

this solves most (all?) ambiguity corner cases,
as similar usernames after truncation or usernames
of all digits (could they be truncated?) etc.

Ciao,
Tito