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From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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Subject: Re: Deprecating ps(1)s -w switch
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* Adrian Penisoara <ady@freebsd.ady.ro> wrote:
>  Maybe we should also think about compatibility with System V Unix / Linux
> -- I have encountered quite a lot of scripts expecting "ps -ef" to give an
> "all processes" output. It would not hurt to review what the Linux folks =
did
> with their ps(1) -- it supports 3 kinds of options for UNIX/BSD/GNU flavo=
rs.

In my opinion we should just implement ps(1) as documented in the POSIX
Onlinepubs. If it turns out it lacks certain features we want, we could
consider adding this to procstat(1) instead.

I am of course too lazy to work on this. ;-)

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 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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