Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 19:39:06 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: PS -W option - why? Message-ID: <20050727233906.GD21845@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <20050727233713 DOT 46841 DOT qmail AT web31406 DOT mail DOT mud DOT yahoo DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050727233713.46841.qmail@web31406.mail.mud.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 04:37:13PM -0700, Don Beusee wrote: >ps -e on Unix returns all processes running on the system. This command >doesn't do that under cygwin. Why should it be necessary to supply -W to >see all processes running on the system? This makes it incompatible with >Linux/Unix, and such scripts that rely on -e doing this will not work the >same on Cygwin. Can this be fixed? ps -e returns all of the cygwin processes running on the system. There is nothing to fix. This is by design. cgf -- 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/