tech-userlevel: Re: ps -o field=HEADING,field2=HEADING2

Subject: Re: ps -o field=HEADING,field2=HEADING2
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 09/11/2006 11:54:14

On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 12:30:53AM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote:
> 1) SUSv2 says that {ps -o "field1=HEADING1,field2=HEADING2"} specifies
> only one field: field1, whose heading is "HEADING1,field2=HEADING2".
> NetBSD's ps thinks that it specifies two fields: field1 with heading
> "HEADING1", and field2 with heading "HEADING2".  I think we should
> change to be SUS compatible here.  Any objections?

I read the SUSv3 text differently. Can you recheck this and the other
things against v3?

Joerg