Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 21:44:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> Cc: standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects/c99 index.sgml Message-ID: <200206120144.g5C1ihUh095183@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020612011330.GA45415@gits.dyndns.org> References: <200206070217.g572HH584853@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020606194448.A23497@FreeBSD.ORG> <20020611030857.GB14401@gits.dyndns.org> <20020610202431.A30207@FreeBSD.ORG> <20020612011330.GA45415@gits.dyndns.org>
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<<On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 03:13:30 +0200, Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net> said: > some of the possible approaches are : > 1) a la HPUX : use an environment variable (UNIX95) to deal w/ some standard. > 2) a la Tru64 or AIX : BSD options aren't dash (-) prefixed. > 3) a la SunOS : use different commands located in different paths. > 4) yet another approach : use a different command name to deal w/ some standard. > 5) try to merge BSD and System V options. in my opinion, this is really > possible except by breaking the former or the later standard since > similar options may behave differently such as -u (different meaning) > or -j (different output). > 6) use a command line option to switch from one or the other behaviour. 7) Ignore the losing System V `ps' and leave well enough alone. We have a `ps' that works, behaves the way users expect it, and has never in its history accepted System V options. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message
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