Deprecating ps(1)s -w switch
Ivan Radovanovic
rivanr at gmail.com
Tue Aug 25 14:24:31 UTC 2009
Ed Schouten napisa:
> * Brian Somers <brian at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
>> I recently closed bin/137647 and had second thoughts after Ivan (the
>> originator) challenged my reason for closing it.
>>
>> The suggestion is that ps's -w switch is a strange artifact that can
>> be safely deprecated. ps goes to great lengths to implement width
>> limitations, and any time I've seen people not using -ww has either
>> been a mistake or doesn't matter. Using 'cut -c1-N' is also a great
>> way of limiting widths if people really want that...
>>
>> I'd like to propose changing ps so that width limits are removed and
>> '-w' is deprecated - ignored for now with a note in the man page
>> saying that it will be removed in a future release.
>>
>> Does anyone have any objections to doing this? I don't propose
>> merging this back into stable/8.
>>
>
> So ps(1) output can never be limited to the screen width?
>
I think it would be smart not to limit width by default (ie default
behavior to be like with -ww), but to have some switch (like -w) to
limit width if someone really needs to do that, although with "cut -c
1-80" could be achieved limiting...
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