Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:20:59 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deprecating ps(1)s -w switch Message-ID: <86hbvu64hg.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <20090825034054.2d57e733@dev.lan.Awfulhak.org> <20090825134447.GM2829@hoeg.nl> <200908251609.09302.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> <4A9407D3.60006@freebsd.org>
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Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> writes: > The difference between "ps", "ps -w", and "ps -ww" is pretty > significant for Java, in particular. Java command lines > are typically enormous (thank you, CLASSPATH) which makes > "ps -ww" often more annoying than it's worth. Java command lines aren't necessarily enormous. If they are, it is because whoever invoked Java didn't know that it respects the CLASSPATH environment variable, and that setting -classpath on the command line f*s up the user's preferences (e.g. the user may want to replace a particular set of classes with an alternative implementation). DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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