"Piotr P. Stefaniak" <ps...@freebsd.org> wrote: > I thought about this more and the change I proposed in > https://reviews.freebsd.org/D41231 seems unnecessarily complicated, > regardless of which characters will be chosen to denote going up and > down the process tree. ps -D'^$' suggests there are possibly more > characters to use and maybe even some kind of DSL is available. > > So a simpler option is to keep the new aspect of -d (that it traverses > the tree down, even if ps is given a list of PIDs) and add a -D that > would work the same, but the other direction.
That is indeed cleaner, and whilst the new "-D" option would cover the particular use case I mentioned, the old sorting method with arbitary, and specific PIDS is still useful. How about reverting '-d', and adding "-D" for descending, and "-A" for ascending? Cheers, Jamie
