At 12:32 PM +0400 8/19/06, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006, Brooks Davis wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 18, 2006, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > > > | On Fri, Aug 18, 2006, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > > > | > In a commit msg, Yar Tikhiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > | > > Log: > > > | > > The ps(1) command is unfriendly to scripts by default > > > | > > because it limits the width of its output to the value > > > | > > of $COLUMNS, or what TIOCGWINSZ reports, or 79 columns. > > > | > > We should specify -ww to ps(1) so that it removes the > > > | > > limit and prints lines in full. Otherwise very long > > > | > > command pathnames could be mishandled, e.g., > > > | > > by _find_processes(). > > > | > > > > | > or perhaps _find_processes() should use pgrep(1) instead > > > | > of ps(1). > > > | > > > | I considered that but had to stick to ps(1) because pgrep > > > | was in /usr/bin while ps was in /bin. The use of /usr/bin > > > | tools should be very limited in rc.subr(8). OTOH, pgrep > > > | uses /lib libs only, which makes it possible to transfer > > > | pgrep+pkill to /bin if we can stand the growth of / by > > > | some 50 kbytes. > > > > > > I think that's appropriate since pgrep is such an obvious > > > fit for this sort of thing. I think we'll want to consider > > > compatability symlinks due to existing hardcoded paths in > > > scripts.
I do not mind if `pgrep' and `pkill' are moved to /bin. Note that these were added to /usr because that's where they exist on NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris and Linux. So we're not just talking about hardcoded-paths in a few scripts that FreeBSD users might have written for use only on FreeBSD. So, I expect we will want symlinks to remain in /usr, forever, if we move the programs to /bin. (Moving them does seem reasonable to me. I'm just saying why they were put in /usr in the first place...) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
