From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 11 7:29:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 931) id 6669237B409; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 07:29:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 07:29:56 -0700 From: Juli Mallett To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Andrew Kenneth Milton , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for comments on a new utility... Message-ID: <20020611072956.A6437@FreeBSD.ORG> References: <20020611064612.A703@FreeBSD.ORG> <616.1023805519@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <616.1023805519@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 04:25:19PM +0200 Organisation: The FreeBSD Project X-Alternate-Addresses: , , , X-Affiliated-Projects: FreeBSD, xMach, ircd-hybrid-7 X-Towel: Yes 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 * Sheldon Hearn escriurères > > > 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'd read SUS's ps(1) escription a little closer. Very few guarantees with it. > 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. :-) It's fine :) > 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. That's something to think about :) Thanks. -- Juli Mallett FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Perception is prejudice / Don't classify me / Accept me as me / Not what you see To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message