[[!template id=project

title="Refactor Tabular Display Programs"

contact="""
[tech-userlevel](mailto:tech-userlevel@NetBSD.org)
"""

mentors="""
[David Young](mailto:dyoung@NetBSD.org)
"""

category="userland"
difficulty="easy"
duration="3 months"

description="""
Refactor utilities in the base system, such as netstat, top, and
vmstat, that format & display tables of statistics.

One possible refactoring divides each program into three:

* one program reads the statistics from the kernel and writes them in machine-readable form to its standard output
* a second program reads machine-readable tables from its standard input and writes them in a human-readable format to the standard output
* and a third program supervises a pipeline of the first two programs, browses and refreshes a table.

Several utilities will share the second and third program.
"""
]]