posix ps (was Re: Adding `pgrep' and `pkill' to /usr/bin)

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 11:41 AM +0100 3/27/04, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
>as I read your proposed changes, we could merge them w/o
>any problem. well, in fact, I already merge some of them
>(the or part instead of and).
>
>original ps : 26668 (no posix compliant)
>yours : 31072 (partly posix compliant)
>mine : 35684 (fully posix compliant)

Actually, the difference between the `ps' that I started with
and the `ps' that I ended up with is much less than 5000 bytes
(on i386, at least).  However I just upgraded my system last
night, so I no longer have the earlier files.  [well, I suppose
I could get them easily enough, but really I have other things
on my schedule for today...]

>  > Secondly, I personally am not fond of commands which COMPLETELY
>>  change their behavior based on environment variables.  Different
>>  options, different formats, different rules.
>
>that's what other system does to avoid conflicts and for clarity.

That does not make me any fonder of it.  I've worked with those
options on other systems, and speaking for just me personally, I
have not liked how they worked out.  I just don't.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu