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Subject: Re: misc/19124: ps(1) to support SysV-style options?
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Synopsis: ps(1) to support SysV-style options?

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: iedowse
State-Changed-When: Fri Nov 16 18:56:17 PST 2001
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Realistically, I don't think this is likely to happen, although a
ps supporting SysV arguments could be done as a port. FreeBSD's ps
supports only BSD-style options simply because it is a BSD ps. Also
the leading `-' is part of the documented way to specify arguments
to FreeBSD's ps, so using it to signify SysV arguments would break
countless scripts and confuse users.

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