Brian Somers wrote:
I recently closed bin/137647 and had second thoughts after Ivan (the
originator) challenged my reason for closing it.
The suggestion is that ps's -w switch is a strange artifact that can
be safely deprecated. ps goes to great lengths to implement width
limitations, and any time I've seen people not using -ww has either
been a mistake or doesn't matter. Using 'cut -c1-N' is also a great
way of limiting widths if people really want that...
I'd like to propose changing ps so that width limits are removed and
'-w' is deprecated - ignored for now with a note in the man page
saying that it will be removed in a future release.
Does anyone have any objections to doing this? I don't propose
merging this back into stable/8.
my fingers would object as ps auxw is my standard command.
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