Change to "kludge option processing" in /bin/ps

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 10:13 PM +0200 6/3/04, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
>
>"Garance A Drosihn" <drosih at rpi.edu> wrote:
>>  At 5:08 PM +0200 5/31/04, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
>>  >
>>  >before to commit new changes, think about how to fix the
>>  >following ones :)
>>  >
>>  ># ps -p ,,
>>  >   PID  TT  STAT      TIME COMMAND
>>  >     0  ??  ZW     0:00.00  (sshd)
>>  ># psx -p ,,
>>  >psx: no process id specified
>>
>>  The above issue was pretty trivial to fix, and I have committed a
>  > change which should fix it.
>
>ok, let's try another issue :
>
># ps -G " nobody "
>   PID  TT  STAT      TIME COMMAND
>75483 con- S      0:10.97 /usr/local/sbin/junkbuster configfile
># ps -G ,nobody,
>ps: Invalid (zero-length) group name
>ps: Invalid (zero-length) group name
># ps -G ,
>ps: Invalid (zero-length) group name
>ps: Invalid (zero-length) group name

frankly, polishing off the error-messages for INVALID input is not
high on my list of priorities right now.  It just isn't.  And no,
it would not be trivial to "just drop in" the massive update you
had written (particularly when parts of it don't seem to work for
me).

 From my point of view, I've gone more than a month without replies
to email that I sent when I was eager to follow up on some of your
work.  Eventually I decided to just go ahead.  I'm still interested,
but not interested enough to throw out the updates I have been
testing just so I can start over from scratch.

>why do you make a difference while parsing commas and spaces ?

What I have committed is an improvement from what was there.  If there
is a burning need to skip over blanks, then I'll be happy to write
another one-or-two line update to allow that.  But at the moment
I am focusing on newsyslog, because there are a few users who are
having some serious headaches due to limitations in newsyslog, and
I believe it is more important for me to address those problems...

Once I get my upcoming changes to newsyslog sorted out, then I will
drop back to working on my upcoming changes to `ps'.  Any other
minor parsing issues will be fixed as time permits.  I'm just a
volunteer here, I am afraid I only have a little spare time that
I can spend on freebsd.

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