what's the value of the "w" option in ps?

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 30 May 2006 8:09 pm, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 04:40:18PM -0500, Jason Schoon wrote:
> > On 5/30/06, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > >  maybe i'm just not seeing this, but i see no aesthetic difference in
> > >running "ps" versus "ps -w".  hints?
> >
> > I saw a big difference, in that my fingers are trained to type "ps ax" or
> > something similar, which results in an error message when wide support is
> > enabled, versus being happily ignored when it isn't.
> >
> > I turned it off and never looked back.
>
> is there a reason a/u/x aren't supported? right now busybox ps is
> annoyingly useless for many common tasks like noting memory usage.
>
> is the answer "send patch" ? :)

Yup.  I miss this as well because my fingers go "ps ax" all the time.  But 
it's way down on my todo list.  (And the current ps code is just evil.)

> rich

Rob
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