svn commit: r183781 - in user/edwin/top/top-3.8b1: contrib/top usr.bin/top

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 04:56:29PM -0400, Garance A Drosehn wrote:
> At 9:34 PM +1100 10/12/08, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> >On Sun, Oct 12, 2008, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> 
> > > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/183781
> >> >
> >> > Log:
> > > >   All collected changes to with regarding to the feedback
> > > >   received on the announcement of top 3.8b1 on -stable and
> > > >   -current as version B.
> > > >
> > > >   This is considered the final version and submitted to mentor
> > > >   (bde@) for commit approval.
> > >
> >> What happened to my request of preserving -a option?
> >
> >Taken in consideration, as promised on #thatchannel.
> >
> >I still think that compatibility with the original program and thus
> >other OS's on which top runs, either out of the box or via the
> >original tar-ball of the author, is more important than the
> >compatibility between FreeBSD versions for FreeBSD specific features.
> 
> Hmm, I didn't realize there were plans to change the -a option.

Change only as in the parameter, not as in the feature.

It's going to be -c now because -a has been used by the original top for:

    -a, --all
	 Show all processes for as long as possible.  This  is
	 shorthand for  "-d  all  all".   This  option is especially
	 handy in batch mode.

> Also, if this version of 'top' is going to change the meaning of
> some options compared to previous versions of 'top' on FreeBSD,
> then I think it would be helpful for the man page to include some
> short historical footnote of that change.

I understand.

Edwin
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