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Date:      Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:00:37 -0800
From:      Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
To:        Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Sheldon Givens <sheldon@sigsegv.ca>
Subject:   Re: Small change to 'ps'
Message-ID:  <4968F055.8060001@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090109015106.3614a378@mbook.local>
References:  <f4ecc0930901061152q2ad01c4fj42dec8ad9fb201fa@mail.gmail.com>	<20090107125759.GA1462@roadrunner.spoerlein.net>	<alpine.BSF.2.00.0901070851560.43659@thor.farley.org>	<20090107154854.GC1462@roadrunner.spoerlein.net>	<f4ecc0930901070927m2eec8770r9df984b21a97f5f7@mail.gmail.com> <20090109015106.3614a378@mbook.local>

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Mike Meyer wrote:
>  How about borrowing from existing commands that
> already implement this functionality (zfs and zpool) and using `-H',
> which is relatively rarely used elsewhere?

Every BSD command that walks a filesystem supports
-L, -P, and -H with consistent semantics:

-L  Logical traversal (follow all symlinks)
-P  Physical traversal (follow no symlinks)
-H  Hybrid traversal (follow symlinks given on command line)

Tim



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