[indiana-discuss] FAM-2 ( was Re: Indiana Problem Statement )

[Doug Scott]

Peter Tribble wrote:
> On 7/2/07, Tim Foster <Tim.Foster at sun.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 19:04 +0100, Peter Tribble wrote:
>>     
>>>> On 7/2/07, Tim Foster <Tim.Foster at sun.com> wrote:
>>>> timf at haiiro[884] top
>>>> The command "top" has is unavailable or has different
>>>> syntax in OpenSolaris.
>>>> You might want to use the following instead -
>>>> Example: prstat 1
>>>>         
>>> I regard the aim as being to provide a useful and user-friendly
>>> environment, not to explicitly advertise to the user how
>>> deficient and user-hostile Solaris is.
>>>       
>> Okay, what's the alternative ? Given < 6 months, should we
>>
>> a) have a mechanism similar to the above
>> b) leave users completely in the dark
>> c) something else ?
>>
>> I'd vote for a) or c) but I'm all ears ?
>>     
>
> I vote for c). Fix it. You don't have to do any real work to
> ship top, for instance. For many commands it's a personality
> thing that can be addressed with the PATH. For something
> like ps you could use what I've had as my ps for over a
> decade:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> case $# in
> 0)
> 	exec /usr/ucb/ps
> 	;;
> esac
> case $1 in
> -*)
> 	exec /usr/bin/ps $*
> 	;;
> *)
> 	exec /usr/ucb/ps $*
> 	;;
> esac
>
> (We could argue for hours about the default behaviour in the
> no-argument case...)
>   
Why not fix the C code rather that hack around with a shell script?

Doug