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Date:      Thu, 6 Jun 2002 20:02:39 -0700
From:      "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Tim J. Robbins" <tjr@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        standards@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects/c99 index.sgml
Message-ID:  <20020606200239.A28424@FreeBSD.ORG>
In-Reply-To: <20020607123628.A60618@treetop.robbins.dropbear.id.au>; from tjr@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 12:36:28PM %2B1000
References:  <200206070217.g572HH584853@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020606194448.A23497@FreeBSD.ORG> <20020607123628.A60618@treetop.robbins.dropbear.id.au>

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* From "Tim J. Robbins" <tjr@FreeBSD.org>
> On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 07:44:49PM -0700, J. Mallett wrote:
> 
> > Which essentially means:  If you have patches for ps(1) wrt SUSv3 conformance,
> > or want to discuss which options of ours should go in favor of SUSv3 ones that
> > conflict, which should be optional, etc., speak up.
> 
> My opinion is that we shouldn't remove the traditional BSD options where
> they conflict with the XSI extensions. POSIX.2 UPE conformance would be
> a good thing, though.
> 
> Here is the synopsis from P1003.2a:
> 
>  5.23.1  Synopsis
> 
>  ps  [-aA] [-G grouplist] [-o format] ...  [-p proclist] [-t termlist]
>      [-U userlist]
> 
> We are missing -A and -G, and the -p and -o options may have other problems.

-o is conformant now, afaict.

-G|-p should be, but I'm not sure.

-A is a synonym for something both BSD and SYSV have always done, but used a
diff letter for.
-- 
J. Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org>                    FreeBSD: The Power To Serve


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