Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 17:36:30 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Cyrille Lefevre" <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>, <freebsd-standards@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PATCH for a more-POSIX `ps', and related adventures Message-ID: <p06020495bc8a5cb7f8e2@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <1b9301c4137f$c73acb70$7890a8c0@dyndns.org> References: <p06020448bc824de07ab9@[128.113.24.47]> <1b9301c4137f$c73acb70$7890a8c0@dyndns.org>
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At 11:14 PM +0100 3/26/04, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: >"Garance A Drosihn" <drosih@rpi.edu> wrote: > > > [this is BCC'ed to -arch so more people have a chance to see > > it, but I expect most of the discussion to happen in > > freebsd-standards]. > >argh! thread not seen before. please, see my post in -arch entiled : >posix ps (was Re: Adding `pgrep' and `pkill' to /usr/bin) You need to catch up on the entire thread before replying. If you are only following -arch, then note that most of the discussion has happened in -standards. Let me save you a little concern, and say that "for now" I have backed away from any of the options where there has been some debate over whether the option would create more headaches than it solves. (most of them are still in the code, but #ifdef'ed out until I do some more thinking). If nothing else, make sure you understand my latest patch, which I intend to commit tonight or tomorrow. The ship has pretty much sailed at this point, because I can't just keep increasing the size of the patch and throwing around multi-hundred line emails every two hours for the next two months. I need to commit the part that I have now, and then think of what I want to do next. We are not going to commit one 10,000 line patch to `ps', attempting to solve every problem ever known to man all at once. I am fairly confident that the 1,000 line patch that I have right now is safe, and is a step forward, and does not bloat the size of /bin/ps, and does not get us into much trouble wrt future changes. Those are all good things. I intend to commit what I have written and debugged. I just sort of stumbled into this `ps' issue last week, and I have worked many hours on what I have done. I know it falls far short of the perfect solution, but I am doing something and I am willing to listen to further ideas. However, I cannot devote my life to `ps', so I will juggle this work with all the other work that I'm trying to do. [I'm also several lines in to a reply to your other message to freebsd-arch, but I'll send this shorter reply right now...] -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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