I recently closed bin/137647 and had second thoughts after Ivan (the originator) challenged my reason for closing it.
The suggestion is that ps's -w switch is a strange artifact that can be safely deprecated. ps goes to great lengths to implement width limitations, and any time I've seen people not using -ww has either been a mistake or doesn't matter. Using 'cut -c1-N' is also a great way of limiting widths if people really want that... I'd like to propose changing ps so that width limits are removed and '-w' is deprecated - ignored for now with a note in the man page saying that it will be removed in a future release. Does anyone have any objections to doing this? I don't propose merging this back into stable/8. -- Brian Somers <br...@awfulhak.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! <br...@freebsd.org>
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