Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:48:35 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deprecating ps(1)s -w switch Message-ID: <4A9407D3.60006@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200908251609.09302.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> References: <20090825034054.2d57e733@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20090825134447.GM2829@hoeg.nl> <200908251609.09302.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za>
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Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Tuesday 25 August 2009 15:44:47 Ed Schouten wrote: >> * Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>> I recently closed bin/137647 and had second thoughts after Ivan (the >>> originator) challenged my reason for closing it. >>> >>> The suggestion is that ps's -w switch is a strange artifact that can >>> be safely deprecated. ps goes to great lengths to implement width >>> limitations, and any time I've seen people not using -ww has either >>> been a mistake or doesn't matter. The difference between "ps", "ps -w", and "ps -ww" is pretty significant for Java, in particular. Java command lines are typically enormous (thank you, CLASSPATH) which makes "ps -ww" often more annoying than it's worth. I concur with another poster that the GNU ps approach for supporting multiple argument styles deserves consideration. Tim
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