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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: Dima Dorfman <dima@unixfreak.org>
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	Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ps ps.c 
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On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Dima Dorfman wrote:

> Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes:
> > I'm not sure about the the name change "sess" -> "sid".
> 
> I thought about this one.  Both ways have their advantages.  Think of
> automated scripts that use ps: if they rely on 'sess' on being a
> unique session identifier, then this change breaks them, although
> those scripts are easy to fix; if they use 'sess' as something more
> than a unique value per session, then changing the meaning of 'sess'
> breaks them.  Although I think the latter group is much smaller, those
> scripts that are in it will break in much more mysterious ways if the
> name wasn't changed (i.e., things in the first group break with "ps:
> no sess" messages, while the latter break with possibly incorrect
> output).

OK.  I'm happy with the session stuff in ps now. :-)

Bruce


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