Peter Tribble wrote: > On 7/2/07, Tim Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 19:04 +0100, Peter Tribble wrote: >> >>>> On 7/2/07, Tim Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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?
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