Guillaume Marcais wrote:
I think that you may be right, however I am wondering what election process Mandrake used for their membership. As a Silver level Mandrake Club Member, I for one did not vote on this change.Isn't it a move to behave accordingly to some POSIX standard? Which is probably out of the scope of Mandrake...
Just a guess,
Guillaume.
For anyone that writes scripts, this functionality destroys anyone's credibility as all of the ps processing commands now depict the following message:
ps -ax | more Bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ? S 0:06 init [5]
I am left to ponder the rational that went into the Developer's Minds as they dug themselves from Chapter 11?
I for one have ben supporting the Open Source Development community for a considerable amount of time. This is a Radical change, and forces all of the Open Source Community to revamp all of their developments, to conform to the Mandrake way. I do not know what they were thinking, this is why I'm asking the proverbial question.
I am beginning to believe this more and more and more .....Personally ... I think it was an application of the "If it ain't broke, fix it." school of thought.
James
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