Small change to 'ps'

Tim Kientzle kientzle at freebsd.org
Sat Jan 10 11:00:40 PST 2009


Mike Meyer wrote:
>  How about borrowing from existing commands that
> already implement this functionality (zfs and zpool) and using `-H',
> which is relatively rarely used elsewhere?

Every BSD command that walks a filesystem supports
-L, -P, and -H with consistent semantics:

-L  Logical traversal (follow all symlinks)
-P  Physical traversal (follow no symlinks)
-H  Hybrid traversal (follow symlinks given on command line)

Tim


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