On Tuesday 25 August 2009 15:44:47 Ed Schouten wrote: > * Brian Somers <[email protected]> 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 usually want to see ps(1) output in easily-read columns. Without width limits, this can't be guaranteed. I would strongly object to the complete removal of any option to limit the output width of ps(1) and make it easily human-readable. I'm also astonished at the suggestion that not using -ww is ``a mistake''. I very seldom need to see the whole commandline for every process. Jonathan _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
