Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:42:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de> To: Stephen McKay <smckay@internode.on.net> Cc: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: posix ps (was Re: Adding `pgrep' and `pkill' to /usr/bin) Message-ID: <20040329094109.G12618@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> In-Reply-To: <200403290252.i2T2qosv004559@dungeon.home> References: <p0602046abc879c5fe2f9@[128.113.24.47]> <20040325070120.GA67497@VARK.homeunix.com> <p06020494bc8a5738af2f@[128.113.24.47]> <20040328184244.I10175@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> <1080523435.2255.1869.camel@cube> <200403290252.i2T2qosv004559@dungeon.home>
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On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Stephen McKay wrote: SM>I'm happy for users to get whatever they like as long as use in scripts is SM>completely predictable. Personally, I like it when "ps axl" and "ps -ef" SM>do magic based on the hyphen. That's not a hidden variable though. While that's doable for ps it does not work for ls and other utilities. What whould be nice to have is a mechanism that allows us to make more of our utilites posix conform without breaking BSD support. harti
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