X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: References: <4edba06c76Andy@jet-net.co.uk> Subject: RE: display ps command line parameters Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:08:57 +0100 Message-ID: <045201c78b52$9f46e0b0$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 30 April 2007 18:48, Matthew Woehlke wrote: > um... and since Cygwin has this information, doesn't this mean that 'ps' > is missing a feature that is standard to pretty much every other *nix > implementation of 'ps'? (I don't have a POSIX standard handy Yes you do: open browser, google "posix opengroup". Vol.2, "Shell and utilities", part 4: Utilities: takes us to http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/ps.html which is pretty lax about requirements: " he args format specifier is allowed to produce a truncated version of the command arguments. In some implementations, this information is no longer available when the ps utility is executed. " " The normative text is reworded to avoid use of the term "must" for application requirements. " cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/