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From: peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: I hope this won't ignite a major flame war, but I've got to know!
Date: 25 Jul 1994 21:59:01 -0500
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In article <DHOLLAND.94Jul25170707@scws33.harvard.edu>,
David Holland <dholland@scws33.harvard.edu> wrote:
>There's -t, to select a terminal; ps -tp6 lists only what's on ttyp6.
OK, how about -u.
>Does AT&T ps have an equivalent of -x?
Either the manual is wrong, or FreeBSD PS is broken:
-x Display information about processes without controlling termi-
nals.
% ps -x
PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND
951 ?? I 0:00.23 /bin/sh .xinitrc
960 ?? I 0:00.02 /bin/sh .xinitrc
961 ?? S 1:18.13 /usr/local/bin/wish -f /usr/local/bin/tkpostage -geome
962 ?? S 0:03.70 olvwm
964 ?? I 0:00.38 olwmslave
1100 ?? I 0:00.03 /bin/sh -c /usr/X386/bin/xterm -sb
2936 ?? I 0:00.03 /bin/sh -c /usr/X386/bin/xterm -sb
1102 p1 Ss 0:00.93 -sh (csh)
3228 p1 RU+ 0:00.06 ps -x
2938 p2 Is+ 0:00.59 -sh (csh)
3017 p3 SUs+ 0:01.00 rlogin -l peter starbase
3018 p3 S+ 0:00.75 rlogin -l peter starbase
Why do you suppose it's showing 1102, 3228, etc? I really want to know, 'cos
it looks like 'ps -x' is more like 'ps -a' in System V.