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Re: What happened to the ps POSIX options



On 23 Feb 1998, Tommi Kaariainen wrote:

> I updated procps (+ other stuff) to the newest version(s) in the Debian
> mirror I use (sunsite.auc.dk) and found out that the (much more useful) 
> POSIX-style ps options no longer work. Why were they removed?

Debian fell back to use the unmodified upstream procps release, which
doesn't have POSIX/UNIX98-style options yet.  There are plans for the
upstream source to incorperate these options again in the future, but they
are gone for the moment.

-- 
Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net>                 http://www.gate.net/~storm/


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