Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:53:53 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deprecating ps(1)s -w switch Message-ID: <4A942531.6000702@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20090825034054.2d57e733@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org> References: <20090825034054.2d57e733@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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Brian Somers 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. Using 'cut -c1-N' is also a great > way of limiting widths if people really want that... > > I'd like to propose changing ps so that width limits are removed and > '-w' is deprecated - ignored for now with a note in the man page > saying that it will be removed in a future release. > > Does anyone have any objections to doing this? I don't propose > merging this back into stable/8. > my fingers would object as ps auxw is my standard command.
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