Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:23:13 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Ivan Radovanovic <rivanr@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>, Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Deprecating ps(1)s -w switch Message-ID: <86d46i64dq.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <4A9436A7.2020108@gmail.com> (Ivan Radovanovic's message of "Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:08:23 %2B0200") References: <20090825034054.2d57e733@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org> <4A94325D.6070201@FreeBSD.org> <4A9436A7.2020108@gmail.com>
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Ivan Radovanovic <rivanr@gmail.com> writes: > I think software should evolve to be better rather then to stick with > something done the wrong way, even that has been done maybe 30 years > ago - that is why behavior should be changed. It is never too late to > do the right thing ;-) Are you also going to rewrite 30 years' worth of scripts that expect ps(1) to have a -w option which behaves in a particular manner? DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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