unit: print the color status marks on the left

The alignment of the "[  OK  ]" and "[FAILED]" status marks to the right
side of the terminal makes it difficult to link them with the messages
on the left if your console is wide.

I considered the options:
 1. Align them to the 80th column regardless of the console width.
    Disadvantage - either:
    - truncating messages needlessly, not using available space; or
    - If the message is long, write the mark over it. => ugly
 2. Write them to the 80th column for short messages,
    and further to the right for longer ones.
    Disadvantage:
    - jagged look
 3. Write the marks on the left, before the message.
    Disadvantage:
    - Breaks tradition from RHL.
    Advantages:
    + slightly simpler code
    + Will annoy holy-traditionalists.

I chose option 3.
BTW, Debian now uses similar marks on the left with its makefile-style
boot.

Special values of the "status" argument to status_vprintf are:
  NULL - no status mark, no message indentation
  ""   - no status mark, message indented as if the mark was there
This commit is contained in:
Michal Schmidt 2012-05-14 12:50:33 +02:00
parent 5f23d5b149
commit 9ab7a8d2a3
2 changed files with 25 additions and 32 deletions

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@ -981,7 +981,7 @@ int unit_start(Unit *u) {
unit_add_to_dbus_queue(u);
unit_status_printf(u, NULL, "Starting %s...", unit_description(u));
unit_status_printf(u, "", "Starting %s...", unit_description(u));
return UNIT_VTABLE(u)->start(u);
}
@ -1023,7 +1023,7 @@ int unit_stop(Unit *u) {
unit_add_to_dbus_queue(u);
unit_status_printf(u, NULL, "Stopping %s...", unit_description(u));
unit_status_printf(u, "", "Stopping %s...", unit_description(u));
return UNIT_VTABLE(u)->stop(u);
}

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@ -3329,15 +3329,15 @@ cpu_set_t* cpu_set_malloc(unsigned *ncpus) {
}
void status_vprintf(const char *status, bool ellipse, const char *format, va_list ap) {
char *s = NULL, *spaces = NULL, *e;
int fd = -1, c;
size_t emax, sl, left;
char *s = NULL;
static const char status_indent[] = " "; /* "[" STATUS "] " */
int fd = -1;
struct iovec iovec[5];
int n = 0;
assert(format);
/* This independent of logging, as status messages are
/* This is independent of logging, as status messages are
* optional and go exclusively to the console. */
if (vasprintf(&s, format, ap) < 0)
@ -3348,15 +3348,19 @@ void status_vprintf(const char *status, bool ellipse, const char *format, va_lis
goto finish;
if (ellipse) {
char *e;
size_t emax, sl;
int c;
c = fd_columns(fd);
if (c <= 0)
c = 80;
if (status) {
sl = 2 + 6 + 1; /* " [" status "]" */
emax = (size_t) c > sl ? c - sl - 1 : 0;
} else
emax = c - 1;
sl = status ? strlen(status_indent) : 0;
emax = c - sl - 1;
if (emax < 3)
emax = 3;
e = ellipsize(s, emax, 75);
if (e) {
@ -3366,34 +3370,23 @@ void status_vprintf(const char *status, bool ellipse, const char *format, va_lis
}
zero(iovec);
IOVEC_SET_STRING(iovec[n++], s);
if (ellipse) {
sl = strlen(s);
left = emax > sl ? emax - sl : 0;
if (left > 0) {
spaces = malloc(left);
if (spaces) {
memset(spaces, ' ', left);
iovec[n].iov_base = spaces;
iovec[n].iov_len = left;
n++;
}
}
}
if (status) {
IOVEC_SET_STRING(iovec[n++], " [");
IOVEC_SET_STRING(iovec[n++], status);
IOVEC_SET_STRING(iovec[n++], "]\n");
} else
IOVEC_SET_STRING(iovec[n++], "\n");
if (!isempty(status)) {
IOVEC_SET_STRING(iovec[n++], "[");
IOVEC_SET_STRING(iovec[n++], status);
IOVEC_SET_STRING(iovec[n++], "] ");
} else
IOVEC_SET_STRING(iovec[n++], status_indent);
}
IOVEC_SET_STRING(iovec[n++], s);
IOVEC_SET_STRING(iovec[n++], "\n");
writev(fd, iovec, n);
finish:
free(s);
free(spaces);
if (fd >= 0)
close_nointr_nofail(fd);