>i think what steve's getting at is: why doesn't cpu take >any non-flagged command-line arguments?
>> ah, i see. yes, i've been caught by that as well. >> >> the problem is i've also been caught doing 'cpu system', thinking of >> it as a parallel to ssh or telnet. i probably assume -c more often >> than -h, but that does seem less consistent with other "remote access" >> commands. Yes, exactly - It just "feels strange", I know I can bodge it locally but I was just thought it strange that it works this way and wondered if there was a reason (in the mists of time perhaps). > That seems more a server function than a client function to me; I was imagining somthing like the load balancing code I have seen for Unix, each box multicasts a load estimate regularly and a local daemon picks these up and answers "which is the least loaded machine" requests; obviously I also imagined a much more elegant solution for a plan9 environment... -Steve
