Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-05-01 Thread Dave Korn
jurriaan wrote: > If not, where can I find the link to the mailing list archive that > points out where the actual man-page for ps is kept? > I downloaded 86 megabytes of source as per the FAQ, and found only > 9 man-pages, and no ps.[0-9] amongst them. The source for the 'ps' man page is in th

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-05-01 Thread Dave Korn
William Sutton wrote: > I'll point out that there is also a significant difference between a > direct response and gratuitous insults. Then perhaps you shouldn't have responded to the direct response: > Use "procps" rather than "ps". with gratuitous insults: > speaking for myself and a lot o

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-05-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 02:15:27PM -0400, William Sutton wrote: > I'll point out that there is also a significant difference between a direct > response and gratuitous insults. I'll point out that there is a significant difference between an indignant reply to an innocuous direct response and a..

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-05-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 09:27:59PM +0200, jurri...@rivierenland.xs4all.nl wrote: >From: Christopher Faylor >Date: Fri, May 01, 2009 at 02:11:23PM -0400 >> >> Languishing aside, however, if someone is willing to provide a patch to >> provide a new option and new functionality, it will be given the

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-05-01 Thread jurriaan
From: Christopher Faylor Date: Fri, May 01, 2009 at 02:11:23PM -0400 > > Languishing aside, however, if someone is willing to provide a patch to > provide a new option and new functionality, it will be given the same > attention that we always give to patches. > something like this? If not, wh

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-05-01 Thread William Sutton
I'll point out that there is also a significant difference between a direct response and gratuitous insults. William Sutton On Fri, 1 May 2009, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 04:52:21PM +0200, jurri...@rivierenland.xs4all.nl wrote: From: Mark J. Reed Date: Wed, Apr 29, 20

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-05-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 04:52:21PM +0200, jurri...@rivierenland.xs4all.nl wrote: >From: Mark J. Reed >Date: Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:31:13AM -0400 >>This has come up before; an archive search might save some repetition. > >Yes, sorry about that. I can understand that the output of ps is used >in s

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-05-01 Thread jurriaan
From: Mark J. Reed Date: Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:31:13AM -0400 > > This has come up before; an archive search might save some repetition. Yes, sorry about that. I can understand that the output of ps is used in scripts. I find it harder to understand that adding a new flag to ps would also break

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-04-29 Thread William Sutton
William Sutton On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Mark J. Reed wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:13 AM, William Sutton Let's try this one again, and maybe we can be civil instead of condescending and insulting? Ahh. You must be new here. :) I've been using Cygwin for ~ 5 years and monitoring the list

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-04-29 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:13 AM, William Sutton > Let's try this one again, and maybe we can be civil instead of > condescending and insulting? Ahh. You must be new here. :) This has come up before; an archive search might save some repetition. But if I understand the argument properly, it's

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-04-29 Thread William Sutton
Let's try this one again, and maybe we can be civil instead of condescending and insulting? There are certain expectations of UNIX and UNIX-alike environments, particularly core commands. When I move from Solaris to AIX to HP-UX to Linux to Cygwin, I expect commands to perform in fairly simil

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-04-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:52:27AM -0400, William Sutton wrote: >That's a nice answer for a command that works, but, speaking for myself >and a lot of other people who use cygwin for the UNIX-like utilities >(like the OP), we shouldn't have to remember one-off command names to Maybe you and your m

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-04-29 Thread William Sutton
That's a nice answer for a command that works, but, speaking for myself and a lot of other people who use cygwin for the UNIX-like utilities (like the OP), we shouldn't have to remember one-off command names to get the same functionality we're used to in *NIX. Perhaps ps could be fixed to incl

Re: ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-04-29 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:11:29AM +0200, jurriaan wrote: >If I run execute some sh -c "sleep 180" & commands on cygwin >(CYGWIN_NT-5.2 1.7.0(0.210/5/3) and then run ps -ef, I get a lot of > >/usr/bin/sh > >processes. > >If I run ps -ef on my linux (2.6.25.17), I get > >sh -c sleep 180 >sh -c slee

ps -ef difference linux/cygwin (arguments)

2009-04-29 Thread jurriaan
If I run execute some sh -c "sleep 180" & commands on cygwin (CYGWIN_NT-5.2 1.7.0(0.210/5/3) and then run ps -ef, I get a lot of /usr/bin/sh processes. If I run ps -ef on my linux (2.6.25.17), I get sh -c sleep 180 sh -c sleep 180 sh -c sleep 180 Is there any way to get the commandline argume