Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:26:20 -0400 From: Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov@comcast.net> To: Ivan Radovanovic <rivanr@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, dougb@FreeBSD.org, brian@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Deprecating ps(1)s -w switch Message-ID: <E1Mg2ay-000Pd1-8W@daland.home> In-Reply-To: <4A944370.2000306@gmail.com> (message from Ivan Radovanovic on Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:02:56 %2B0200) References: <20090825034054.2d57e733@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org> <4A94325D.6070201@FreeBSD.org> <4A9436A7.2020108@gmail.com> <4A94385A.1000405@FreeBSD.org> <4A943C18.2050103@gmail.com> <4A943D06.405@FreeBSD.org> <4A944370.2000306@gmail.com>
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,--- You/Ivan (Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:02:56 +0200) ----* | > Feel free to take a crack at this and send the results to the list for | > review. Improving the documentation is always a worthy goal. | > | I would do that for sure if everyone thinks this ps behavior is | something that should be kept at current state even if it could be made | better `---------------------------------------------------* Don't know how you are going to find about "everyone", but I, for one, think that modifying the established tool's behavior in the proposed manner is an utterly bad idea. Use shell aliases, functions and scripts wrapped around the primary tool to get the behavior you like -- let others stick with their established habits and wrappers. Improving the documentation would be good, OTOH. Thanks, -- Alex -- alex-goncharov@comcast.net --
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