On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 12:31:51PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > > ps is probably the most inconsistent command in the entirety of Unix. > > No, 'ps ux' won't work on Unix systems which take most of their heritage > > from System V rather than BSD, and there is probably no one set of ps > > arguments that will work everywhere. > > Yeah, I was getting afraid of that after some testing. Would > > pgrep -U $USER ssh-agent > > be more portable?
Probably less portable, if anything. I don't know of any portable way to handle process IDs; you have to test the operating system and act accordingly. :( If in doubt, you're probably best off dealing with the operating systems you know about and requesting patches for others while failing reasonably gracefully. If anybody cares, they'll do something about it. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
