On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 02:43:03AM +0400, jaakov jaakov wrote: > Now you are saying that displaying a number is a UNIX/POSIX standard. > This did not show up in the discussion earlier and is news to me. It appeared in some discussion and was in the man page.
> If displaying a number is really a standard, then I don't see why names > should be truncated instead. The reason is that changing to numbers has confused a lot of people. The reasons for keeping the username->uid change are largely irrelevant and are bascially contrived examples. I personally would prefer to see a truncated username than a uid. If I wanted a uid I would of told ps to display it. I've (and other maintainers in other distributions) have had plenty of people asking why they see uids. - Craig -- Craig Small VK2XLZ http://enc.com.au/ csmall at : enc.com.au Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org/ csmall at : debian.org GPG fingerprint: 5D2F B320 B825 D939 04D2 0519 3938 F96B DF50 FEA5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
