I have been wondering about this for a long time... The ps command on cygwin and Linux use incompatible options & flags and display incompatible output formats. Additionally, linux ps is much more feature rich.
While I could live with fewer features, the incompatibility in basic input options and the lack of consistent output format is a PITA since it breaks many of my scripts. Compatibility here is important since 'ps' is such a basic script building block used all the time to get info about other processes. Now I could understand that differences in Windows and Linux architecture could lead to some features being implementable on one platform vs. the other, but I don't understand why there seems to be little if any consistent overlap. Perhaps this is all a POSIX vs. not POSIX thing or something like that but I would like to understand what the advantages are of the current approach and why in particular the 'ps' on cygwin seems so underpowered and inconsistent. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Is-there-a-more-Linux-consistent-version-of-ps--tp26500161p26500161.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
