Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:44:47 +0200 From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> To: Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, Ivan Radovanovic <rivanr@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Deprecating ps(1)s -w switch Message-ID: <20090825134447.GM2829@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <20090825034054.2d57e733@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org> References: <20090825034054.2d57e733@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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--hdhkc9EpVJoq6PQ6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > I recently closed bin/137647 and had second thoughts after Ivan (the > originator) challenged my reason for closing it. >=20 > 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... >=20 > 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. >=20 > Does anyone have any objections to doing this? I don't propose > merging this back into stable/8. So ps(1) output can never be limited to the screen width? --=20 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/ --hdhkc9EpVJoq6PQ6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkqT6s8ACgkQ52SDGA2eCwXfvwCdHEjIDmvn72ntNblALRmQ2nqc hBwAnizukr+XSXeZQgqYTekUXQEnVBxa =N1TT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hdhkc9EpVJoq6PQ6--
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