Ed Schouten napisa:
* 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 think it would be smart not to limit width by default (ie default
behavior to be like with -ww), but to have some switch (like -w) to
limit width if someone really needs to do that, although with "cut -c
1-80" could be achieved limiting...
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