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Re: PS -W option - why?
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 19:39:06 -0400
- Subject: Re: PS -W option - why?
- References: <20050727233713.46841.qmail@web31406.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 04:37:13PM -0700, Don Beusee wrote:
>ps -e on Unix returns all processes running on the system. This command
>doesn't do that under cygwin. Why should it be necessary to supply -W to
>see all processes running on the system? This makes it incompatible with
>Linux/Unix, and such scripts that rely on -e doing this will not work the
>same on Cygwin. Can this be fixed?
ps -e returns all of the cygwin processes running on the system. There
is nothing to fix. This is by design.
cgf
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