Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:43:21 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net> Cc: drosih@rpi.edu Subject: Re: PATCH for a more-POSIX `ps', and related adventures Message-ID: <xzpr7vgf17a.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <1080247208.2232.1095.camel@cube> (Albert Cahalan's message of "25 Mar 2004 15:40:08 -0500") References: <1080165171.2232.910.camel@cube> <20040325191745.GB71731@stack.nl> <1080247208.2232.1095.camel@cube>
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Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net> writes: > On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 14:17, Jilles Tjoelker wrote: > > I think that has been a historical mistake in the POSIX standardization. > > tar/cpio were not standardized, instead a new utility "pax" was > > invented. This should have been done with ps too [...] > I would agree, except that nobody uses pax. :-) NetBSD and OpenBSD use pax exclusively; their tar and cpio are symlinks to /bin/pax. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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