Don Beusee wrote: > ps -e on Unix displays “every process running on the system”. This command > doesn't do that under cygwin. Why should it be necessary to supply -W to > see all processes running on the system? This makes it incompatible with > Linux/Unix, and such scripts that rely on -e doing this will not work the > same on Cygwin. What is the point to not showing all other processes on the > system like Linux/Unix does? This is a silly design and causes headaches > and frustration for people trying to write scripts that work on cygwin and > Linux/Unix. Can this be changed please? >>FWIW I just alias: ps='ps -W' works fine roger wells > -Don >>>> -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple >>> -- Roger Wells, P.E. SAIC 221 Third St Newport, RI 02840 401-847-4210 (voice) 401-849-1585 (fax) roger.k.wells@saic.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple