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Re: Why require ps -W and kill -f


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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