Re: If something is not stated in POSIX we should not bother even if 90%+ of Linux system out there using it ??

From: Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2000 - 08:34:08 EST


Khimenko Victor wrote:
> P.P.P.S. Once again: why "big boys" are so silent on issue ? I know,
> it's not very sexy but it SHOULD be done one way or another before 2.4
> is out. Otherwise you just can not do reliable ftpwho and on LOTS of
> sites such command is usefull. It's easy to say that ftpd should not
> use setproctitle(3) for this but then if it's all is not important
> then why procfs was invented in first place ???

If ftpwho is the only reason, then forget it. ftpwho can be implemented
without looking at the cmdline field.

-- Jamie

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