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From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: c/s 17731 portability issues
Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 09:14:21 +0100
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On 26/5/08 09:07, "Christoph Egger" <Christoph.Egger@amd.com> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Changeset 17731 has some portability issues:
> 
> BSD ps has no --no-headers  argument.
> Solaris ps  has no --no-headers argument and -o has a different
> semantic.
> 
> For BSD it would be enough to just remove --no-headers.

Then the surrounding logic would need to be fixed up too. I wonder whether
it is even possible to extract process state from ps in an OS-neutral way?
The changeset isn't important or useful enough to keep if it's going to
cause portability problems.

 -- Keir