Bug#254243: (no subject)

[martin f krafft]

also sprach Olaf van der Spek <Olaf at XWIS.Net> [2008.10.19.1125 +0200]:
> I think it should be merged with #222324
> I'm willing to continue work on my patch from 2005 if Luk and Martin agree.

I don't want to have to rely on a width switch. I'd say that netstat
should output line-oriented and stop worrying about terminal size.
First of all, IPv6-connected hosts are unlikely to be so old that
they can only do width-80 or non-tty terminals, and second, the days
of tools like route/arp/netstat which present formatted output
(which is harder to process) are hopefully over in favour of tools
that print the maximum of information and leave it to other tools to
do the formatting. I really like /bin/ip for that reason, and
because its output is the same as its input. Tabular output, like
netstat, is IMHO not worth the trouble, especially if it means that
the output cannot be complete.

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