Andrew Brown wrote:

> >> what if i wanted to do "ps -uaxww"?
> >
> >The current behaviour is to have BSD and SysV mode separate, except that
> >adding "ps -ef" to BSD mode was easy...
> 
> what's that supposed to do?  the same thing as "ps -axl"?  that's just
> weird...

A little more - as well as enabling all processes (effectively -ax) it
uses a sysv -f format ("user pid ppid c start tt time command") instead
of the -l output format.

After talking to Todd I'm still not sure that BSD mode should have any
SysV compatibilities at all though...

Simon.