Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 08:51:24 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PATCH for a more-POSIX `ps', and related adventures Message-ID: <20040325145124.GB61830@madman.celabo.org> In-Reply-To: <p0602045dbc84dd541b11@[128.113.24.47]> References: <p06020448bc824de07ab9@[128.113.24.47]> <20040322155901.GA17891@stack.nl> <p0602045dbc84dd541b11@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 01:18:22PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > Great. So what should I do here? I dunno. Add a completely POSIX compliant ps command into /usr/posix ? Or replace /usr/bin/ps with a completely POSIX compliant ps and move our traditional one to /usr/ucb? :-) Seriously, we should give some hard thought into how to provide/migrate to a POSIX compatible utilities environment. It's been discussed on the lists before, but I still believe providing POSIX compatible versions of utilities on a separate path is the only clean way to make this happen. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine / nectar@celabo.org / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@freebsd.org
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