From owner-freebsd-standards Thu Jun 6 20: 2:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id 8472A37B406; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 20:02:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 20:02:39 -0700 From: "J. Mallett" To: "Tim J. Robbins" Cc: standards@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en/projects/c99 index.sgml Message-ID: <20020606200239.A28424@FreeBSD.ORG> References: <200206070217.g572HH584853@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020606194448.A23497@FreeBSD.ORG> <20020607123628.A60618@treetop.robbins.dropbear.id.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020607123628.A60618@treetop.robbins.dropbear.id.au>; from tjr@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 12:36:28PM +1000 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , X-Affiliated-Projects: FreeBSD, xMach, ircd-hybrid-7 X-Towel: Yes Sender: owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * From "Tim J. Robbins" > 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 FreeBSD: The Power To Serve "I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically." -- George W. Bush, Radio-Television Correspondents Association dinner, Washington, D.C., March 29, 2001 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message