Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:40:54 -0700 From: Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Cc: Ivan Radovanovic <rivanr@gmail.com> Subject: Deprecating ps(1)s -w switch Message-ID: <20090825034054.2d57e733@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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--Sig_/5Xee_40azWQyT3XMHoTDzh_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I recently closed bin/137647 and had second thoughts after Ivan (the originator) challenged my reason for closing it. The suggestion is that ps's -w switch is a strange artifact that can be safely deprecated. ps goes to great lengths to implement width limitations, and any time I've seen people not using -ww has either been a mistake or doesn't matter. Using 'cut -c1-N' is also a great way of limiting widths if people really want that... I'd like to propose changing ps so that width limits are removed and '-w' is deprecated - ignored for now with a note in the man page saying that it will be removed in a future release. Does anyone have any objections to doing this? I don't propose merging this back into stable/8. --=20 Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! <brian@FreeBSD.org> --Sig_/5Xee_40azWQyT3XMHoTDzh_ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBSpO/wA7tvOdmanQhAQKOgQP/f4zpizwkdzq08feUhZnZYBsgDg6F1FQ2 0aX1MqG5tMo1P6xNbagZfZJi79/nx7IiAr6Q0YisCtzF+DpK91Pmi1gciTSSPSdz RWr/qYwhAATj5q4r9SrqokV8EuNxkpnMAaJvQ2Twq1gXwpQ3OpVWb5PrW8H2UQaD KB/fZbyC1xA= =vJHH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/5Xee_40azWQyT3XMHoTDzh_--
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