* Sheldon Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escriurères > > > On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 06:46:13 MST, Juli Mallett wrote: > > > > Piping commands through other commands seems icky? > > > > Relying on reasonable output from ps(1) seems icky when you can extract the > > data yourself and not have to worry about formatting getting in the way of > > processing data properly. > > I don't think you should worry too much about _not_ getting reasonable > output from POSIX-conformant utilities. :-)
I'd read SUS's ps(1) escription a little closer. Very few guarantees with it. > I didn't want to be the one to break the "pstree exists" news, because I > know how frustrating it is to discover that you've just engineered a > solution to a solved problem, but it's an unfortunate fact of life. I > was very annoyed when I realized that my waitpid(1) program that I was > so proud of already existed in several incarnations. :-) It's fine :) > Still, you can be proud of the work you've done. You could even get it > into the ports tree. It's always nice to have choices. That's something to think about :) Thanks. -- Juli Mallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> FreeBSD: The Power To Serve Perception is prejudice / Don't classify me / Accept me as me / Not what you see To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
