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Date:      Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:43:14 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@nsu.ru>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ps ps.1 ps.c
Message-ID:  <p0602042cbc7f7f4f0f65@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <p06020429bc7f762deb61@[128.113.24.47]>
References:  <200403172246.i2HMkw9v041299@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040318151432.GA23925@regency.nsu.ru> <p06020429bc7f762deb61@[128.113.24.47]>

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At 10:57 AM -0500 3/18/04, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>At 9:14 PM +0600 3/18/04, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>>On Wed, Mar 17, 2004, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
>>  >
>>  >   Also adds support for <x> being a comma-separated list of
>>  >   processes, and does a much better checking for invalid-values
>>  >   of <x>, such as 'ps -p someword'.
>>
>>FWIW, what does POSIX/SUS say on this?  Does your commit bring us
>>any closer here?
>
>Yes.  SUSv3 indicates that '-p' should accept a list of processes,
>and we used to only support a single process for it.  So, we are a
>little closer.

...but it's not quite an exact match to the standard.  I'll see if
I can get it a little closer without too much work.  Sigh.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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