On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:07:23PM +0200, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> On 06/04/06, Jarkko Hietaniemi <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Strictly speaking, "ps f" -> foliage is not a UNIX thing, it's a demon
> > spawn of Unix, err, a Linux thing.  In traditional and/or standard
> > UNIXes "f" is for "full" listing.
> 
> You mean the hateful GNU ps that attemps to mimic every ps(1) syntax
> out there? The one that produces completely different outputs when
> invoked as "ps f" and "ps -f"?

Especially considering that the original BSD ps did not have the "f"
option, and that of all BSDs today only FreeBSD and DragonFly BSD have
since aquired it, again meaning something entirely different.  :-)

\Anton.
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