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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: xargs and alias commands
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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 15:14:48 GMT
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In article <Cv7I45.Iv1@mail.auburn.edu>,
Doug Hughes <doug@eng.auburn.edu> wrote:
> Don't forget semaphores, IPC, message queues. I like them a lot!

Gah. System V IPC is broken as designed. There is no rational excuse for
creating a second name space instead of using the filesystem name space
for IPC objects.

> > Me? Well, my 1st inclination is 'ps -efl' and not 'ps -aux'... Most probably
> > always will be ;)

> I'll set aside a moment of prayer on the day that ps -aux goes away.

OSF/1 has "ps -efl" and "ps aux".
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