Re: standards/18257: POSIX.2-1992: ps(1)'s TIME column has the wrong format

[Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR standards/18257; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost>
To: gnrp%komkon2.de@localhost
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: standards/18257: POSIX.2-1992: ps(1)'s TIME column has the wrong 
 format
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:01:06 +0100

 > You could either introduce another keyword - e.g. pcputime or ptime (p fo=
 r
 > precision) to display them again - or dump this proposal and be non-posix
 > compliant or dump the precision and be posix-compliant.
 
 Imo it would make most sense to keep the traditional display if
 called with BSD syntax ("ps ax"), and be POSIX compliant if
 called with SYSV/POSIX syntax ("ps -ef").
 As long as we don't support POSIX at the command line there is
 no need to have the display strictly POSIX compliant.
 
 best regards
 Matthias
 
 
 
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