posix ps (was Re: Adding `pgrep' and `pkill' to /usr/bin)

[Harti Brandt]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Stephen McKay wrote:

SM>I'm happy for users to get whatever they like as long as use in scripts is
SM>completely predictable.  Personally, I like it when "ps axl" and "ps -ef"
SM>do magic based on the hyphen.  That's not a hidden variable though.

While that's doable for ps it does not work for ls and other utilities.
What whould be nice to have is a mechanism that allows us to make more of our
utilites posix conform without breaking BSD support.

harti