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Re: Why require ps -W and kill -f
- From: Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>
- To: Cygwin-L <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:27:00 -0700
- Subject: Re: Why require ps -W and kill -f
- References: <050f01ca9b07$df859370$9e90ba50$@com>
On 1/21/2010 7:09 PM, Don Beusee wrote:
ps -e on Unix displays “every process running on the system”.
Not on every *ix. On FreeBSD, if you give -a (the BSD equivalent of -e)
as an unprivileged user, you can't see other people's processes, for
security reasons.
It would be nice if every *ixes worked exactly like every other, but
they don't, and never have. Your scripts have to be able to cope.
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