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Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:23:13 +0200
In-Reply-To: <4A9436A7.2020108@gmail.com> (Ivan Radovanovic's message of "Tue, 
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Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>,
	Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Deprecating ps(1)s -w switch
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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?

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