Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com> wrote on Mon,  4 Jun 2007
at 19:51:55 +0000 in <f41qgr$a5j$1@sea.gmane.org>:

> >Just to line things up nicely.  No other reason.
> 
> Typically we hard-code the spaces in... I guess this is nicer.

It's less nice when you run strings on the binary though.

--jhawk

> $ ps -\?
> usage:  ps [-acCehjlmrsSTuvwx] [-k key] [-O|o fmt] [-p pid] [-t tty]
>            [-M core] [-N system] [-W swap] [-U username]
>         ps [-L]