Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> That said, I do sort of think that the rule you have, while workable, is
> more confusing and violates the principle of least surprise. (I.e.
> you added a switch by accident which suddenly changed the meaning of
> other options in a totally unexpected fashion.)
This approach (interpreting the options as either BSD or SVR4 depending
on whether the dash is present) has been used for ps on other systems
before. I don't think anyone will be terribly surprised.
Scott
>
> But given as we're talking about a case that would otherwise be an
> error, I'm not sure there is architecturally relevant cause to debate it
> further.
>
> -- Garrett
>
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