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From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
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Subject: Re: posix ps (was Re: Adding `pgrep' and `pkill' to /usr/bin)
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On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Albert Cahalan wrote:

AC>Cyrille Lefevre writes:
AC>
AC>Step 1:
AC>
AC>a. ps does old BSD behavior by default
AC>b. /posix/bin/ps is a script that sets the SUSv3 personality
AC>c. /usr/ucb/ps is a link to /bin/ps
AC>
AC>Step 2:
AC>
AC>a. ps does SUSv3 by default
AC>b. /posix/bin/ps is a link to /bin/ps
AC>c. /usr/ucb/ps is a script that sets the old BSD personality

It don't think that 2a is a good step. Too many people are used to BSD
behaviour especially if the are on a BSD system. Also it seems to me that
having /usr/ucb on a BSD system is a silly thing. If you need /usr/posix
(not /posix please) so it be.

harti