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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To: Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Deprecating ps(1)s -w switch
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On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:40:09PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Brian Somers, and lo! it spake thus:
>
> I think this is a shame as I find the pros more compelling than the
> cons, and I'm sure there are more than a few supporters out there on
> hackers@ that will stay silent.

FWIW, I'm in favor of at least carefully examining whether the cons
really disqualify the change.  My uses of ps pretty well fall into
three categories:

1) The times I use -ww
2) The times it doesn't matter whether I did or not
3) The times I wish I'd used -ww, sometimes way later in the game when
   a script *DOESN'T* do what it's supposed to because ps isn't
   actually giving me the command.  Thanks, ps.


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