Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 19:51:35 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ps ps.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104131949270.15431-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <20010413002944.6FE383E25@bazooka.unixfreak.org>
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On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Dima Dorfman wrote: > Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes: > > I'm not sure about the the name change "sess" -> "sid". > > I thought about this one. Both ways have their advantages. Think of > automated scripts that use ps: if they rely on 'sess' on being a > unique session identifier, then this change breaks them, although > those scripts are easy to fix; if they use 'sess' as something more > than a unique value per session, then changing the meaning of 'sess' > breaks them. Although I think the latter group is much smaller, those > scripts that are in it will break in much more mysterious ways if the > name wasn't changed (i.e., things in the first group break with "ps: > no sess" messages, while the latter break with possibly incorrect > output). OK. I'm happy with the session stuff in ps now. :-) Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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