Deprecating ps(1)s -w switch

[Ed Schouten]

* Adrian Penisoara <ady at freebsd.ady.ro> wrote:
>  Maybe we should also think about compatibility with System V Unix / Linux
> -- I have encountered quite a lot of scripts expecting "ps -ef" to give an
> "all processes" output. It would not hurt to review what the Linux folks did
> with their ps(1) -- it supports 3 kinds of options for UNIX/BSD/GNU flavors.

In my opinion we should just implement ps(1) as documented in the POSIX
Onlinepubs. If it turns out it lacks certain features we want, we could
consider adding this to procstat(1) instead.

I am of course too lazy to work on this. ;-)

-- 
 Ed Schouten <ed at 80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/
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