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Date:      Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:42:58 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Harti Brandt <brandt@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
To:        Stephen McKay <smckay@internode.on.net>
Cc:        Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject:   Re: posix ps (was Re: Adding `pgrep' and `pkill' to /usr/bin) 
Message-ID:  <20040329094109.G12618@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de>
In-Reply-To: <200403290252.i2T2qosv004559@dungeon.home>
References:  <p0602046abc879c5fe2f9@[128.113.24.47]> <20040325070120.GA67497@VARK.homeunix.com> <p06020494bc8a5738af2f@[128.113.24.47]> <20040328184244.I10175@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> <1080523435.2255.1869.camel@cube> <200403290252.i2T2qosv004559@dungeon.home>

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On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Stephen McKay wrote:

SM>I'm happy for users to get whatever they like as long as use in scripts is
SM>completely predictable.  Personally, I like it when "ps axl" and "ps -ef"
SM>do magic based on the hyphen.  That's not a hidden variable though.

While that's doable for ps it does not work for ls and other utilities.
What whould be nice to have is a mechanism that allows us to make more of our
utilites posix conform without breaking BSD support.

harti



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