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Subject: Re: I hope this won't ignite a major flame war, but I've got to know!
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From: dholland@scws33.harvard.edu (David Holland)
Date: 26 Jul 1994 18:14:11 GMT
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peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM's message of 25 Jul 1994 21:59:01 -0500 said:
> Either the manual is wrong, or FreeBSD PS is broken:
>
> -x Display information about processes without controlling termi-
> nals.
> :
> :
> Why do you suppose it's showing 1102, 3228, etc? I really want to know, 'cos
> it looks like 'ps -x' is more like 'ps -a' in System V.
-x is to include processes without controlling terminals. It should
list *all* your processes. SysV does not have any easy equivalent
option that I know of.
SysV ps -a (at least on HPUX) does not do this.
OSF/1's ps appears to be badly broken (surprise, surprise...) so what
it has to say probably isn't meaningful.
I don't have access to anything else SysVish at the moment.
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