[dtrace-discuss] printa, IP addresses, and columnar output?

Dan McDonald danmcd at sun.com
Tue Dec 4 16:10:05 PST 2007


On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:46:50PM -0800, Dan Price wrote:
<SNIP!>
> Unfortunately, there is no sprintf, I presume because printf processing happens
> up in userland.  So I was wondering if there's a best practice here, or some
> other obvious way to cope with this problem?

Pity most of the format characters are taken.  A format character for %A4 for
IPv4 or %A6 for IPv6 would work very well here.  ('A' would obviously need to
be replaced.)

Dan


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