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

[Rich Felker]

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" ? :)

rich