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

[Stephen McKay]

On Monday, 29th March 2004, Harti Brandt wrote:

>I'm all with you on this. I said all this under the proposition that we
>want to keep BSD syntax that conflicts with Posix. Sure, I'd rather simply
>move to posix. (The only thing I'd want to retain is 'ps ax' :-)

OK. :-)

That means that (as far as the two of us is concerned at least) the issue
is whether or not we want to be posix conformant.  I've always been of the
opinion that we should be posix compatible when that is convenient, and
ignore it otherwise.  I *think* that is the general consensus among FreeBSD
developers too, but that impression may be a few years out of date now.

Anyway, this looks like the end of this thread, and I'm off to look for a
FreeBSD "standards" list to check if there is anything interesting in the
archives that could be considered an official policy on posix conformance.

Cheers,

Stephen.