From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 11 7:25: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from axl.seasidesoftware.co.za (axl.seasidesoftware.co.za [196.31.7.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CE5C37B405; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 07:25:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sheldonh (helo=axl.seasidesoftware.co.za) by axl.seasidesoftware.co.za with local-esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17HmaF-00009x-00; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:25:19 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Juli Mallett Cc: Andrew Kenneth Milton , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for comments on a new utility... In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jun 2002 06:46:13 MST." <20020611064612.A703@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 16:25:19 +0200 Message-ID: <616.1023805519@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 06:46:13 MST, Juli Mallett wrote: > > Piping commands through other commands seems icky? > > Relying on reasonable output from ps(1) seems icky when you can extract the > data yourself and not have to worry about formatting getting in the way of > processing data properly. I don't think you should worry too much about _not_ getting reasonable output from POSIX-conformant utilities. :-) I didn't want to be the one to break the "pstree exists" news, because I know how frustrating it is to discover that you've just engineered a solution to a solved problem, but it's an unfortunate fact of life. I was very annoyed when I realized that my waitpid(1) program that I was so proud of already existed in several incarnations. :-) Still, you can be proud of the work you've done. You could even get it into the ports tree. It's always nice to have choices. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message