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?

Doug
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