Date: 27 Mar 2004 10:14:59 -0500 From: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net> To: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com> Cc: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Subject: Re: posix ps (was Re: Adding `pgrep' and `pkill' to /usr/bin) Message-ID: <1080400499.2232.1521.camel@cube> In-Reply-To: <40654F5D.5010004@sitetronics.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0403261703470.94941-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <1080350838.2232.1413.camel@cube> <40654F5D.5010004@sitetronics.com>
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On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 04:54, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > Albert Cahalan wrote: > > [snip] > > None yet. Do you happen to know the right people > > at any of the UNIX(R) shops? > > > > Rough idea of direction: > > > > 1. get some wiki-like thing for editing a document > > I'd be happy and willing to set this up. Any preference on the system > used? I can do this immediately. Just a generic idea: * must have enough control to keep out trolls and spammers * colored text or boxes, for commentary or optional parts * can undo changes * recent changes highlighted or diffs available > > 2. define a fair "extended ps" compromise > > 3. based on that, patch the SUSv3 ps specification > > 4. get Linux, one BSD, one SysV, and one OSF/1 to conform > > 5. get some of the changes into SUSv4 (deadline?) > > Is there any way I can help with the above? I'm definitely interested in > helping make FreeBSD more standards compliant and helping with > suggestions for standards as well. Sure, if you either have experience hacking ps code or you know about ps behavior on a wide variety of systems.
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