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On 1/21/2010 7:09 PM, Don Beusee wrote:
> ps -e on Unix displays “every process running on the system”.

Not on every *ix.  On FreeBSD, if you give -a (the BSD equivalent of -e) 
as an unprivileged user, you can't see other people's processes, for 
security reasons.

It would be nice if every *ixes worked exactly like every other, but 
they don't, and never have.  Your scripts have to be able to cope.

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