On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 at 13:54, Rob Landley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hey Ed: you're the BSD expert around here. What is the _desired_ behavior and
> expected usage patterns? (Alas I can't really regression test against a 
> thousand
> old scripts doing weird things with ps, it's usually used more 
> interactively...)

Good question :)

Some interesting hack in FreeBSD's ps source:
kludge_oldps_options
https://reviews.freebsd.org/source/src/browse/head/bin/ps/ps.c$1339

FreeBSD's ps man page documents "ps -auxw" as "Display information on
all system processes;" the user-selection option is -U.
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