'ps' - is it supposed to do that?

Thu Jun 8 01:45:00 GMT 2006

mwoehlke wrote:
> I was looking at 'ps' one day, wishing it would limit its output to just 
> "my" processes. Just now, I realized it is... it is showing me all of 
> *my* processes, rather than all of the *tty's* processes. On most other 
> (real) OS's, I'm used to the limit - sans '-e' - being 'this /tty/', not 
> 'this /user/'.
>> So, I was wondering... is there a reason it works this way?

Should I take the resounding silence to mean "yes, that's how we want it 
to work, now go away... WJM after all"?
> While I'm on the subject, does anyone know/remember if it is possible to 
> recognize distinct real consoles (i.e. is it possible to show con/0, 
> con/1, etc)?

Hmm, well I guess CYGWIN=tty makes this go away anyway.
-- 
Matthew
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