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

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: standards/18257: POSIX.2-1992: ps(1)'s TIME column has the wrong
 format
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:50:54 +0000

 On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 05:30:07AM +0000, Alan Barrett wrote:
  >  Looking at the implemetation, it appears that the output from "ps 
  >  ax" and "ps -ax" will be different.  I really dislike this.  If we 
  >  do any sort of magic format switching, then I'd like a better way, 
  >  and whatever we do the man page should contain a discussion of the 
  >  tradeoffs.
 
 Since POSIX chose to bless System V ps and we have a Berkeley ps,
 there's not much point in expecting (or attempting to implement) exact
 conformance.
 
 If there's a real reason to want a System V ps (as opposed to
 standards wanking) it should be a separate binary. Otherwise you end
 up with horrors like linux's procps.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost