Unified ps(1) [PSARC/2009/076 FastTrack timeout 02/16/2009]

[James Carlson]

Scott Rotondo writes:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> > That said, I do sort of think that the rule you have, while workable, is 
> > more confusing and violates the principle of least surprise.    (I.e. 
> > you added a switch by accident which suddenly changed the meaning of 
> > other options in a totally unexpected fashion.)
> 
> This approach (interpreting the options as either BSD or SVR4 depending 
> on whether the dash is present) has been used for ps on other systems 
> before. I don't think anyone will be terribly surprised.

Depending on the presence of "-" isn't novel.  Other OSes have done
this before.  Inspecting the options in a presumed-BSD-ish list and
reverting to SVR4 behavior if an unexpected option is seen _is_ new,
and it's what caused both Garrett and me to say something.

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