Guillaume Marcais wrote:

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.


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.

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.

Personally ... I think it was an application of the "If it ain't broke,
fix it." school of thought.

James


I am beginning to believe this more and more and more .....






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