Date: 26 Mar 2004 20:27:18 -0500 From: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: drosih@rpi.edu Subject: Re: posix ps (was Re: Adding `pgrep' and `pkill' to /usr/bin) Message-ID: <1080350838.2232.1413.camel@cube> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0403261703470.94941-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0403261703470.94941-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 20:05, Julian Elischer wrote: > On 26 Mar 2004, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > > On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 17:51, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > > > "Albert Cahalan" <albert@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > > > > > Cyrille Lefevre writes: > > > > > > > > > two years ago, I've added posix syntax and so to my locally ps(1). > > > > > for instance, I'm currently adding the notion of dynamic personalities > > > > > > > > OK, would YOU be interested in working with me on some sort of > > > > common ps specification beyond what SUSv3 has to offer? I'd love > > > > to see something that Sun could adopt, and that could be mostly > > > > merged into the next revision of the standard. > > > > > > why not :) > > > > Great. Unless people object, I'll wipe the Cc: list for this. > > Not objecting, but just making sure who is in this before it goes away.. > 1/ Linux ps maintainer.? yes (me) > 2/ Someone fro FreeBSD with interest in ps? yes (Cyrille Lefevre) > 3/ anyone else? None yet. Do you happen to know the right people at any of the UNIX(R) shops? Rough idea of direction: 1. get some wiki-like thing for editing a document 2. define a fair "extended ps" compromise 3. based on that, patch the SUSv3 ps specification 4. get Linux, one BSD, one SysV, and one OSF/1 to conform 5. get some of the changes into SUSv4 (deadline?)
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