[hobbit] client regex, % on web page

David Gore David.Gore at mci.com
Fri Aug 12 00:31:33 CEST 2005


Henrik Stoerner wrote:

>On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 08:09:44PM +0000, David Gore wrote:
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>>With 'ps -ef'
>>
>>webTemip.server.start.TemipServer (found 1,  req. 1 or more)
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>>With 'ps wwaux'
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>>%SystemMate (found 1,  req. 1 or more)
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>>These are the same process.  Everyone here knows what SystemMate is, but 
>>they may not know what the first instance is.
>>
>>I know I asked this before, but I didn't know if you may have missed it.
>>    
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>Didn't miss it, just haven't decided about it yet.
>
>The simple solution is to just relax the process-name check so it
>matches if the search string is found anywhere in the commandline.
>That's what BB does, and it is probably what I am going to do.
>
>  
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>>I can imagine the regex parsing can be quite complicated, so I was just 
>>wondering if you were still looking at removing the '%' from the web 
>>page.
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>I can do that - no problem - but it does bring up the issue of how to
>report it. Your example is very straight-forward, but I can imagine
>some setup where you use more complex regular expressions ... is it
>really OK for Hobbit to present
>
>    ^j[234]+.*(re|vm) (found 4, req. 2 or more)
>
>and expect anyone to nod and say "yup, looks all-right to me" ?
>
>Or should there be some way of providing a human-readable text so
>ordinary users (read: PHB's) can make sense of it ?
>
>
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Ouch.  I didn't realize it showed the whole regular expression until I 
just tested something more complicated. 
I initially thought it was just the leading '%'.


Ok, so yes I would like to see something more human readable or at least 
remove the leading '%' since I am usually just doing simple strings.

~David



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