On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 01:00:35PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, David Laight wrote:
> > However something so that 'ps' could display more of the
> > information might be useful.
> 
> FreeBSD's "ps" has a "-f" option for this.  The man page says:
> 
>      -f      Show commandline and environment information about swapped
>              out processes.  This option is honored only if the uid of
>              the user is 0.

I'd pick a different letter!

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/ps.html

implies that -f should have it's SYSV semantics (ie a bit like -l).

Supporting the posix flags (where they don't break the traditional
behaviour too much) is probably a good idea.

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk