>I noticed that :
>    # /bin/ps --help
>    /bin/ps: illegal option -- help
>    usage: ps [ -aAdefHlcjLPyZ ] [ -o format ] [ -t termlist ]
>            [ -u userlist ] [ -U userlist ] [ -G grouplist ]
>            [ -p proclist ] [ -g pgrplist ] [ -s sidlist ] [ -z zonelist ] [-h 
> lgrplist]
>      'format' is one or more of:
>            user ruser group rgroup uid ruid gid rgid pid ppid pgid sid taskid 
> ctid
>            pri opri pcpu pmem vsz rss osz nice class time etime stime zone 
> zoneid
>            f s c lwp nlwp psr tty addr wchan fname comm args projid project 
> pset lgrp
>
>whereas :
>    # /bin/ps help
>    /bin/ps: illegal option -- h
>    /bin/ps: illegal option -- p
>    usage: ps [ -aceglnrSuUvwx ] [ -t term ] [ num ]
>
>It does feel a bit strange that "usage:" output should be so different, 
>doesn't it ? Especially when different options are listed
>
>BTW I noticed that in b132 processes running in zones are listed by "ps ax", I 
>wasn't aware of tha
t, nor can I remember having seen this before, has this changed ?


"ps" tries to either pretend to be a "UCB ps" or a "SVR4 ps".

--help gets interpreted as "SVR4" and "help" is interpreted as "UCB"
(UCB ps didn't required a "-" before all the option types.

Nothing has changed in the "ps ax" output.

Casper

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