Bug 19124

Summary: ps(1) to support SysV-style options?
Product: Base System Reporter: jan grant <jan.grant>
Component: miscAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description jan grant 2000-06-08 14:10:02 UTC 
ps only supports BSD options. On systems where both argument syntaxes
are available, one can select BSD-style options or SysV-style options
by omitting or including the leading option identifier (the hyphen):
	ps auxgww		(BSD-style options)
	ps -ef			(SysV-style options)
Would it be possible to update ps(1) to use both option styles?

Fix: 

Eg: AIX supports the dual-flavour options.
Comment 1 iedowse freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-11-17 02:56:17 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed


Realistically, I don't think this is likely to happen, although a 
ps supporting SysV arguments could be done as a port. FreeBSD's ps 
supports only BSD-style options simply because it is a BSD ps. Also 
the leading `-' is part of the documented way to specify arguments 
to FreeBSD's ps, so using it to signify SysV arguments would break 
countless scripts and confuse users.